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THE LIFE PRINCIPLE 



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THE PROMOTER OF HEALTH, 



MENTAL CULTURE 



GIVING THE 



Degrees of the Phrenological Organs 



of 



AND HOW TO CULTIVATE, 

AS MARKED BY 



Nature weighs our talents, and to each dispenses 

His full modicum Of sens.- ; 
But much depends, as in tin- tiller's toil, 

In cultivating of the soil." 



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By JOHN MTMATTHEWS, M.D. 

OF ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, 

Eminent Phrenologist, and Author of Matthews' Poetical 

Chart, and Physiological and Phrenological 

Chart, etc. 






HACON .v COMPANY, I'HINI KKS, M. 1 . 




MAGNETISM 



THE LIFE PRINCIPLE 

AND 







THE PROMOTER OF HEALTH, 

WITH 



MENTAL CULTURE 



GIVING THE 



Degrees of the Phrenological. Organs 



of 



AND HOW TO CULTIVATE, 

AS MARKED BY 



Nature weighs our talents, and to each dispenses 

His full modicum of sense ; 
But much depends, as in the tiller's toil, 

Ib. cultivating of the soil." 






By JOHN M. MATTHEWS, M.D. 

OF ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, 

Eminent Phrenologist, and Author of Matthews' Poetical 

Chart, and Physiological and Phrenological 

Chart, etc. 







Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by 

J. M. MATTHEWS, * 0^ 
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 



TO 



MY WIFE, 
JSVA jVlATTHEWSj 

IN TOKEN OF HER SUPERIOR INTUITIONS, 

Truthful and Gentle Disposition: 



rN THE PLEASING REMEMBRANCE OF HEE WOMANLY VIR- 
TUES AND TIMELY ADVICE, 



THIS WOEIv 



IS GRACIOUSLY DEDICATED 



THE AUTHOR. 



PREFACE. 



I have no apology to make for the present work, any more than 
the ship-builder who has launched two crafts successfully and is 
about to launch a third, more complete, with heavier timbers and a 
finer finish than the last two. I hope that the reader will observe 
and examine the solid part as well as the fancy touches, remem- 
bering that happiness is like a pair of scissors with a fine rivet — 
man and woman — the rivet the conditions, positive and negative — 
the rivet the phenomena, tragedies and comedies — the rivet the 
person who acts the part, solid and light — the rivet the genius to 
read the " measure of all things." So, dear reader, we find all 
kinds of rivets, as well as loose screws ; but they can be fixed by 

cultivation. 

JOHN MUREAY MATTHEWS. 

4 Erie Street, opposite Woodward's Gardens, ) 
San Francisco, September 18th, 1876. \ 



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The degrees of development are marked in the squares of the table, on a scale from one 
to seven ; thus, 1, very small ; 2, small ; 3, moderate ; 1, average ; 5, full; 6, large ; 7, very- 
large. The sign x, plus, signifies about one-third of a degree more, and — , minus, one-third 
of a degree less, and the printed figures in the squares refer to the pages in this work. The 
numbers at the left have reference to the symbolical head, illustrating the natural language 
of the faculties. 

Circumference of the Cranium inches. 



CONDITIONS. 


7 

Very 
Large. 


6 

Large. 


5 

Full. 


4r 

Aver- 
age. 


3 

Moder- 
ate. 


3 
Small. 


Culti- 
vate. 


Re- 
strain. 


Marry 

one 
having 




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Organic Quality 


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Health 


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Nervous Temperament 


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Sanguine Temperam't. 


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Bilious Temperament. 


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1 




Lymphatic Tempera- 
ment 


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Activity 


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Excitability 


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Physiognomical Signs- 


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I. Amativeness 


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2. Conjugality 


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4. Friendship 


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5. Inhabitiveness 


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6. Continuity 


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7. Vitativene8s 


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8. Combativeness 


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9. Executiveness 


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10. Alimentiveness. .. 


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11. Acquisitiveness... . 


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12. Secretiveness 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CONDITIONS. 


7 

Very 
Large. 


6 

Large. 


5 

Full. 


4 
Aver- 
age. 


3 

Moder- 
ate. 


3 
Small. 


Culti- 
vate. 


Ee- 

strain. 


Marry 
one 

having 


13. Cautiousness 


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14. Approbativeness... 


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15. Self-Esteem 


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17. Conscientiousness. 


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18. Hope 


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19. Spirituality 


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20. Veneration 


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21. Benevolence 


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22. Constructiveness.. 


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23. Ideality 


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24. Sublimity 


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26. Mirthfulness 


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27. Individuality 


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28. Form 


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29. Size 


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30. Weight 


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31. Color 


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33. Calculation 


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35. Eventuality 


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36. Time 


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37. Tune 


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38. Language 


80 


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39. Causality 


81 
82 


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40. Comparison 


82 


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41 . Human Nature . . . 


83 


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42. Agreeableness 


84 


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Trade, Professions, and Business Adaptations : 



Longevity : 

4 

With care, accidents excepted, you will be likely to live to the aye 
of. years. 



Dote of Examination, 187 

Remarks : 



MEASUREMENTS IN INCHES AND EIGHTHS. 



Circumference round Philoprogenitiveness and Individuality. 
Ear to ear over Eirmness. 

Occipital Spinalis to Individuality over Firmness. 
Philoprogenitiveness to Individuality. 
Ear to Individuality. 
Ear to Comparison. 
Ear to Firmness. 
Ear to Self-Esteem. 
Ear to Philoprogenitiveness. 



CALIPER MEASUREMENTS. 

Calculation to Calculation. 
Constructiveness to Constructiveness. 
Ideality to Ideality. 
Acquisitiveness to Acquisitiveness. 
Cautiousness to Cautiousness. 
Destructiveness to Destructiveness. 
Self-Esteem to Individuality. 
Philoprogenitiveness to Benevolence. 
Philoprogenitiveness to Individuality. 



MAGNETISM THE LIFE PRINCIPLE 



Hygiene the Promoter of Health. 



WITH A PHRENOLOGICAL CHART. 



Magnetism the Life Principle. 



The aroma or the fragrant quality of the violets is a good illus- 
tration of the science I wish to elucidate. Every man and woman 
has his or her aura that flows from their bodies ; all have their 
peculiar quality of magnetism. It may be said with truth that 
magnetism is the philosopher's stone. The quality of magnetism 
— there are as many different qualities of magnetism as there are 
men and women. " Man is the measure of all things." 

1st. There is a reciprocal influence (action and reaction) be- 
tween the planets, the earth, and animated nature. 

2d. The means of operating this action is a most fine, subtle 
fluid, which penetrates everything, and is capable of receiving and 
communicating all kinds of motions and impressions. 

3d. This fluid exercises an immediate action on the nerves, with 
which it embodies itself, and produces in the human body phenom- 

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10 MAGNETISM AND HYGIENE. 

ena similar to those of the loadstone ; that is, polarity and inclina- 
tion. 

4th. This fluid flows with the greatest rapidity from body to 
body, acts at a distance, is reflected by the mirror like light, and 
is strengthened and propagated by sound. 

5th. There are animated bodies which exercise an action directly 
opposite to animal magnetism. Their presence alone is capable of 
destroying the effect of magnetism. 

6th. By means of animal magnetism, we can effect an immedi- 
ate cure of nervous diseases, and a mediate cure of other disor- 
ders ; indeed, it explains the action of medicaments, and operates 
the crisis. 

7th. The physician can discover by magnetism the nature of the 
most complicated diseases. 

Many somnambulists speak of a shining atmosphere that is per- 
ceptible about the magnetizer and themselves ; several see sparks, 
streams of light, or flames issuing, especially from the fingers, but 
also from the hair, eyes, and palms of the hands. 

" His life was gentle ; and the elements 
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up, 
And say to all the world : ' This was a man.' " 

From a well-balanced organization, with the organic quality very 
good, vigorous health, -and the temperaments well blended, and 
large, active moral faculties — the magnetism that flows from such 
an organization has more potent virtues than the most excellent 
fancy can set forth. 

0, what is there on earth more exquisite than the thrilling 
touch of an honest hand ! Every part of a person emits a special 
magnetism of its own, which appeals to the same part of another 
person, on the grand principle of analogical harmony. The halo 
that is around honest and refined persons is dazzling, and far more 
exquisite than sunlight. The eyes, the lips, and the hands are 
powerful magnetic poles. 

" Look in mine eye-balls — there thy beauty lies ; 
Then why not lips on lips, since eyes in eyes ? ' ' 

The eyes — who has not felt the sacred fire from the windows of 
the soul ? — 0, what potency for good or ill ! And the lips, the 



MAGNETISM. 11 

ruby lips — and the magical music that flows from them — and the 
first touch, when all the deeper sense is kindled up ; methinks it 
would require a muse of love to picture forth the sacred entertain- 
ment of the first affectionate kiss — the kiss that first awakens 
those strange emotions — and in the ecstasy of the moment the soul 
seems to pass into unspeakable delights, all nature seems anew, the 
violets are more fragrant, and the roses have a richer hue. Oh, 
the lily — how fair and delicate. See that grand old oak and its 
branches nodding to the sparkling stream, grateful to the wander- 
ing river for its cool, refreshing draught. 

0, what a charm there is in magnetism ; before the touch of the 
sacred fire the world was cold and dull ; now all is life, and for a 
purpose. 

" Thou canst not see one wrinkle in my brow, 

Mine eyes are gray and bright, and quick in turning ; 

My beauty as the spring doth yearly grow ; 

My flesh is soft and plump, my marrow burning ; 

My smooth moist hand, were it with thy hand felt, 

Would in thy palm dissolve or seem to melt." 

Magnetism is love's chariot ; love gives off fine magnetism — the 
magnetism that banishes all sorrow, destroys all care, animates the 
soul into new hopes, and soothes the weary heart into peaceful rest. 

The human brain, with its vapors, fluids, ethers, essences, fibers, 
convolutions, membranes, corpus collosum, medulla oblongata, 
ganglions, and the gray and white nerve-matter — the element 
called phosphorus makes gray nerve-matter, and the gray nerve- 
matter of the brain is the laboratory in which thought is evolved. 
Magnetism is the vehicle that carries our thoughts to all parts of the 
globe. We can all send messages to those who love us, or whose 
magnetism blends with ours. Many wonderful stories could be 
unfolded about mental telegraphy, but it is better for every one to 
experiment for themselves. 

No one has yet been able to analyze or demonstrate the essential 
action of perfume. Gas can be weighed, but not scents. The 
smallest known creatures — the very monads of life — can be caught 
by a microscope lens and made to deliver up the secrets of their 
organization ; but what it is that emanates from the pouch of the 
musk-deer, that fills a whole space for years and years with its pen- 



12 MAGNETISM AND HYGIENE. 

etrating odor — an odor that an illimitable number of extraneous 
substances can carry on without diminishing its size and weight — 
and what it is that the warm summer air brings to us from the 
flowers, no man has yet been able to determine. So fine, so subtle, 
so imponderable, it has eluded both our most delicate weights and 
measures and our strongest senses. If we come to the essence of 
each odor, we should have made an enormous stride forward, both 
in hygiene and in chemistry ; and none would profit more than the 
medical profession, if it could be as conclusively demonstrated 
that such an odor proceeded from such and such a cause, as we al- 
ready know of sulphur, sulphurate hydrogen, ammonia, and the like. 
" If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall 
ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things?" 

GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR, MAGNETIZING. 

The magnetizer must be in good health, or the patient will suffer. 
The magnetizer must have very large moral faculties, or the pa- 
tient's moral character will suffer. 

Ask for moral strength. There is a continual flow of the Cre- 
ator's Spirit from the unseen universe ; so when we comply with 
the conditions we receive spiritual gifts — time or place will not in- 
terfere. On the altar or on the scaffold — in the prison or in the 
palace — reefing the sails or anchored in the peaceful bay — of 
Psyche-aura there is a perpetual flow. 

First condition : Let the patient be in an easy position, taking 
hold of both hands ; think of Jesus Christ for five minutes, grad- 
ually become positive, and by virtue of the will-power send your 
magnetism through the nervous system of the patient. 

Second condition or state: Press your thumb with moderate 
force upon the ulnar nerve, which spreads its branches to the ring 
and little finger of the hand ; lay the ball of the thumb flat and 
partially crosswise, so as to cover the minute branches of these 
nerves of motion and sensation. If you have magnetic or fiery 
hands, do not touch the front head, for it will sometimes cause con- 
gestion of the brain ; rub the back head and down the back of the 
neck, this is sufficient to remove pain. Remember, magnetism is 
dangerous and potent. 



MAGNETISM. 13 

Third condition : Ask the subject if the sensation is pleasant or 
disagreeable : if disagreeable, stop ; you are not adapted for that 
person : be not jealous, but try another. 

You have to be obedient to the law of harmony, and study the 
temperaments ; if the sensation is agreeable take the subject by the 
hand with the palm upward, place the ball of the thumb on the 
median nerve, and the thumb of your left hand on the organ of 
individuality. Say, Please close your eyes firmly ; then in two 
minutes say, You cannot open your eyes; if so, you have the 
subject under your will ; if you are afraid, experiment no more for 
the present. The operator must have wisdom as well as a good 
moral character ; if you are not timid, proceed with the third 
degree. 

Wave the tips of the fingers of both hands over the eye-lids, 
then lift the hands to the convolutions of caution, bring them down 
to the organ of order, then pass the hands outward over the 
shoulders and down the back until you reach the hips ; be careful 
that the hands are apart when you bring the hands up to the head, 
or you will undo what you have done ; make seven downward 
passes to put the subject into a magnetic sleep. To awaken, make 
the passes upward at the same time. Say, Please awake, in a 
gentle voice, but with a firmness that will penetrate the grave ; 
you have now got the first three plans through which individuals 
may be brought into the negative state, and the subtle medium of 
communication through which they may be controlled by mental 
impressions. 

Fourth state or condition : Balmy sleep is tired Nature's kind re- 
storer. The facility with which these states can be produced de- 
pends entirely on the susceptibility of the subject. As all who 
are familiar with the philosophy of dreams know, they are not con- 
trolled by time or space. Hundreds of cases are recorded where 
persons have dreamed the events of years in a few seconds. In- 
deed, the dream-faculty seems sometimes to possess a miraculous 
retroactive effect. There is a case on record of a gentleman who 
was awakened by the report of a pistol-shot. In the instant be- 
fore awaking he dreamed that he had enlisted in the army ; had 
been sent out to India with his regiment ; had been ill treated by 
his superior officer ; had deserted ; had been captured and sen- 



14 MAGNETISM AND HYGIENE. 

tenced to be shot ; had suffered ; and that was the identical shot 
which awakened him. The story of the Sultan, also, is well known, 
who put his head into a basin of magic water, withdrew it imme- 
diately, and in that brief space he lived seven years of life. He 
had fought battles, had been dethroned, and was about to be be- 
headed. Marvelous as this seems, yet it is a simple statement of 
a fact, that time and space are conditions of the waking conscious- 
ness, and in no way affect the state of dreaming. 

By the employment of proper physiological methods, all the 
splendid dreams of Coleridge in " Kubla Khan," and of De- 
Quincey in the " Opium Eater," can be induced without any loss 
of nervous power, or any of those exhaustive effects which follow the 
use of alcoholic or narcotic stimuli. 

It is said that modern science has destroyed the belief in the 
immortality of the soul ; but the science of the soul or psychology 
is restoring it by the phenomena of magnetism. The soul has as 
many faculties and organs as the physical body ; but the spiritual 
and the physical organs are finely entwined by the Creator's hand. 

" There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body." In 
the normal state there is a perfect equilibrium of the physical and 
spiritual faculties ; and so wondrous is the Omnipotent skill, that we 
are lost in admiration. Man and woman possess both an internal 
and an external memory. In the normal, wakeful condition these 
memories act as one. 

Reader, you are now ready to hear of transfer of feeling, or the 
fourth degree, which has the appearance of coma, or profound 



Insensibility to pain. — This only occurs when the magnetic coma 
is fully established, and most of the external senses, together with 
the proper consciousness of external objects, are rendered dormant, 
and the internal memory is called forth, without the guidance of 
reason or the will. In this state the patient can feel what is done 
to the operator. This condition of the phenomena is about the 
simplest of its displays. By a single touch, the mouth of the pa- 
tient may be closed so instantaneously as to leave a word half pro- 
nounced, and, by a pass, as speedily set at liberty. Even the 
nostrils may by a single pinch be partially closed, so as instantly to 
produce the nasal twang, and by a wave of the hand be restored. 



MAGNETISM. 15 

Fifth degree. — It is reasonable to think that the Creator has 
given to every department of his " handiwork " a specific charac- 
ter, and that from the Creator to the lowest inert matter there 
exists a chain of degrees, and that each object of creation can 
only be well and truly studied by observing it in its own degree, 
and by comparing it with objects in another degree. But if we 
confound this distinction of degrees, we shall never arrive at a 
clear and satisfactory solution of many important facts. 

Each degree will be found to have laws or properties peculiar 
to itself ; and if we transcend the degree of the object of our in- 
quiry, by applying to it qualities or properties belonging to another 
distinct degree, we may expect nothing but confusion and mystery. 

Now, in our investigation of the nature of man, it is especially 
necessary not to overlook these distinctions. Philosophy teaches 
that if spirit in no degree is material — that is, does not possess 
those properties which we apply to ponderable matter — still it 
is no less on that account a truly real and substantial existence. 
More truly substantial than the granite rock, because more endur- 
ing. 

" The soul, the mother of deep fears, of high hopes infinite ; 
Of glorious dreams, mysterious tears, of sleepless inner sight." 

Mrs. Hernans. 

The soul that is eternal with the Deity has a spiritual body to 
manifest its selfhood by. The soul never had a beginning, nor 
ever will have an end ; and, when free, has nothing in common 
with time, space, or matter. The soul's attributes are love, truth, 
wisdom, memory, and desire, with social aifections. The soul's 
delights are the realms of science, philosophy, literature, art, 
drama, and music. These are some of the soul's qualities and 
pleasures that have come under our observation. Therefore, it is 
only the body that goes to hell, not the soul. 

" Of the soul the body form doth take, 
For soul is form, and doth the body make." — Spenser. 

Or when the organs of the brain are diseased, and the soul cannot 
get free, student, it is by Desire-Psyche, or Soul-Will, that the 
operator can influence the soul of the subject and the spiritual 
faculties of the patient. The student must be well versed in 



16 MAGNETISM AND HYGIENE. 

physiology. No operator, unless a physician, should attempt 
the fifth degree ; for by the fifth degree the operator can send the 
patient to any place, or rather the patient's soul-faculties to any 
region of the globe. In this state, or degree, the patient will give 
accurate descriptions of things in the next house, or turn the 
patient's faculties, while in the fifth degree of this cerebral lucidity, 
to the internal diseases of persons, and so may receive a diagnosis 
far more accurate than the ordinary mode of research. This is 
some of the good the operator and the patient can do, and is the 
most lawful use of the fifth degree. Dear reader, remember there 
is a wheel within a wheel and a power above a power, and if you 
give way to amorous desires you will, in a degree, lose your power, 
and you may close up the gates of the soul. 

Sixth and seventh degrees : There are many reasons for not giv- 
ing in writing the last two degrees. Things that are hard to find 
have deepest worth. God grant that you may be worthy to receive 
the seventh degree. Paul knew of the sixth degree : " And the 
evil spirit answered and said : Jesus I know, and Paul I know, 
but who are ye ?" Now in the language of the good John Bunyan, 
who tells us that " King Shaddai, in the sixth day of the year one, 
built in the country of Universe a fair and delicate town, called 
Mansoul, and endowed it with corporate privileges — a town, for 
building so curious, for situation so advantageous, that there was 
not its equal on the face of the whole world ; yea, it was so goodly, 
when first built, that the gods, at the setting up of it, came down to 
sing for joy. It was so mighty as to have dominion over all the 
country round about it ; for all were required to acknowledge it 
for their metropolitan, and do it homage. It had commission and 
power from the king to demand service of all, and also to subdue 
those who in any way opposed it. 

" There were certain gates in Mansoul by which access could be 
gained to the celestial country round about it, and communion 
held with the messengers who were constantly coming and going 
from the court of Shaddai. 

" The inhabitants took full advantage of all their glorious privi- 
leges, and conversed with the gods freely, so that all the time they 
continued under the dominion of its builder nothing but sounds of 
joy and praise were heard ; but when, as is well known, they re- 



HYGIENE. 17 

belled against his government, and swore allegiance to Diabolus, 
his enemy, a dreadful change came over them ; and among the 
other enjoyments of which they were bereft, the gates were closed 
that opened to the celestial country, and no communication through 
them, unless under extraordinary circumstances, ever allowed. As 
the gates became disused they were gradually forgotten by the 
many, and for thousands of years all remembrance of them lost." 

Thank God, the gates are opening, and psychology, the science 
of the soul, will soon have them wide open ; and magnetism, the 
soul's Sunday clothes (always new and in fashion) . As the mag- 
netism is used so is the soul's happiness ; remember, dear reader, 
the " Gates Ajar," and you can open them by magnetism, the 
life-principle. 

We all love truth, but will we find it by running after mediums, 
especially of low grade ? 

We have the physical sciences to help us to investigate the great 
problem of life ; therefore we should work out our own individual- 
ity in that truthful, earnest, and reasonable state of mind that 
makes the genuine philosopher. When our moral atmosphere is 
peaceful, pure, serious, and serene, the mind is continually led by 
gentle and rational influence, elevating it from earth and pointing it 
toward happiness and truth. 

JOHN M. MATTHEWS, M.D., Psychologist- 



Hygiene the Promoter of Health. 



The immutable laws of the Creator ; and as my father used to 
say, The same yesterday, to-day, and forever. So, let it be, 0, 
reader, observe the laws ; the divine laws are nature's laws. 

1st. The law of harmony will guide us. 



18 MAGNETISM AND HYGIENE. 

Nutritious diet, exercise, rest, and water pure ; 
Practice this method, then health is sure. 
Sunlight and fresh air, with Nature's courses, 
Develop the Mental, Motive, and Vital forces. 

Truly, remedial agents are materials and influences which have 
normal relations to the vital organs, and not drugs, or poisons, whose 
relations are abnormal and anti- vital. 

Nature's materia medica consists of air, light, temperature, elec- 
tricity, magnetism, exercise, rest, food, drink, bathing, sleep, cloth- 
ing, passional influences, and mechanical or surgical appliances. 

The true healing art consists in supplying the living system with 
whatever of the above it can use under the circumstances, and not 
in the administration of poisons, which it must resist and expel. 

Drug remedies are themselves causes of diseases. If they cure 
one disease it is only by producing a drug disease. Every dose 
diminishes the vitality of the patient. 

Drugopathy endeavors to restore health by administering the 
poisons which produce disease. 

Hygeio-Therapy, (erroneously called " Hydropathy," or " Wa- 
ter-Cure ") on the contrary, restores the sick to health by means 
which preserve health in well persons. 

Diseases are caused by obstructions, the obstructing materials 
being poisons, or impurities of some kind. 

The hygienic system removes these obstructions, and leaves the 
body sound. 

Drug medicines add to the causes of obstructions, and change 
acute into chronic diseases. 

To attempt to cure disease by adding to the cause of disease is 
irrational and absurd. 

Hygienic medication, (Hygeio-Therapy) is not a " one-ideaism" 
which professes to cure all diseases with " water alone." Nor is it 
a " cold water-cure," as is erroneously believed by many. It 
adopts all remedial appliances in existence, with the single excep- 
tion of poisons. 

SPECIAL NOTICES. 

True knowledge of healing will do away with drugs altogether. 
Never take any medicine — the stomach revolts at it ; nature 



HYGIENE. 19 

teaches that it never should be used ; it never cures diseases of 
body or mind. 

Avoid all patent medicines ; they answer the purpose only for 
which they are made, viz., to make money and deceive, but they 
never cure any one. 

If it was ever intended by the Creator for mortals to take med- 
icines, it would be incorporated in our food ; and it is so, all that 
is ever required. 

Never put cold water on weak or diseased eyes. 

Cold water should never be used on the head : but hot for all dis- 
eases of the head or brain. 

Wearing garters makes cold feet and crippled limbs. 

Never sleep or sit with the hands up to the head ; it will cause 
heart disease, consumption, liver complaint, dyspepsia, etc. 

Magnetism — the life-principle — may be imparted from one to 
another, and is the only power to heal the sick. 

Never tamper with your eyes or ears. 

Nitrate of silver, or any other drug, cannot be used on the eyes 
without injury. 

Never use or take opiates or other anodynes. 

Sorrow, grief, fear, or any extraordinary emotion, will cause dis- 
ease ; so, to be well, be cheerful, and wear a pleasant countenance. 
• Never suffer torture from a professed physician's bleeding, cau- 
terizing, cupping, plasters, or the use of liniments, calomel, nux 
vomica, arsenic, or any other drugs or poisons that a well person 
could not take without serious injury. All such practice and pre- 
tended science is empiricism, quackery, and deception, and an in- 
sult to reason and common sense. 

The eyes, the special sense of sight and expression, are the most 
complicated organs of the soul. There is a nerve of sensation and 
a nerve of motion from every dual convolution or phrenological 
organ of the brain that connects with the eyes. The retina— a 
membrane that receives the impression of light, and transmits it to 
the brain through the optic nerve. The iris — a membrane that gives 
color to the eye. Gray irises have the nerves from the cerebrum 
more active than from the cerebellum. The crystalline humor is a 
white, transparent, firm, convex lens — the refracting medium of the 
eye. The cornea — a membrane of transparent substance which 



20 MAGNETISM AND HYGIENE. 

forms the front part of the hall of the eye. The pupil — the open- 
ing in the iris through which the rays of light pass to the retina. 
The vitreous humor — filling the body of the eye with all its fine 
arteries, nerves, and muscles. There are better eyes on this 
planet to-day than in the past ages of the world's history. 

Science gives interesting details how in ancient times the human 
eye was constituted, and how it will be perfected in the future. 
The " Indian Ideas " — the oldest written records — testify that in 
most ancient but yet most historical times only two colors were 
known, black and red. After the lapse of many centuries, the 
eye arrived at a state of greater perfection, and was able to recog- 
nize yellow ; but a much longer period passed away before green 
could be recognized. 

The ancient Greeks possessed a far better developed sense for 
distinguishing colors ; and yet it is proved that the Grecian paint- 
ers, at the time of Alexander, only knew the fundamental colors, 
white, black, red, and yellow. They had no names for blue and 
purple, and called these two colors gray and black. The various 
colors of the rainbow were only slowly recognized, and even the 
great Aristotle could only distinguish four colors of the same. 

It is well known that if the color-prism be photographed, there 
is seen on the plate, behind blue and purple, yet another impres- 
sion of a color, which color, however, we cannot yet recognize. It 
is more than probable that a time will arrive when the more perfect 
humap eye will distinguish this color also. 

HYGIENIC MEDICATION FOR THE EYES. 

Tepid rain-water for weak or diseased eyes : do not put cold 
water on sore eyes, but hot water for weak or diseased eyes. 
Please not to go out into the cold atmosphere after bathing the 
eyes. Cold water will do for healthy eyes. 



THE LIGHT OF THE SUN, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE EYES 

AND BRAIN. 

Dr. Ponza, director of the lunatic asylum at Alessandria, (Pied- 
mont) having conceived the idea that the solar rays might have 



HYGIENE. 21 

some curative power in diseases of the brain, communicated his 
views to Father Secchi of Rome, who replied in the following 
terms : " The idea of studying the disturbed state of lunatics in 
connection with magnetic perturbations, and with the colored, es- 
pecially violet, light of the sun, is of remarkable importance, and 
I consider it worth being cultivated." Such light is easily obtained 
by filtering the solar rays through a glass of that color. "Violet," 
adds Father Secchi, " has something melancholy and depressive 
about it, which, physiologically, causes low spirits ; hence, no 
doubt, poets have draped melancholy in violet garments. Perhaps 
violet light may calm the nervous excitement of unfortunate 
maniacs." He then, in his letter, advises Dr. Ponza to perform 
his experiments in rooms the walls of which are painted of the 
same color as the glass panes of the windows, which should be as 
numerous as possible, in order to favor the action of solar light, so 
that it may be admissible at any hour of the day. The patients 
should pass the night in rooms oriented to the east and to the south, 
and painted and glazed as above. Dr. Ponza, following the in- 
structions of the learned Jesuit, prepared several rooms in the 
manner described, and kept several patients there under observa- 
tion. One of them, affected with morbid taciturnity, became gay 
and affable after three hours' stay in a red chamber. Another, a 
maniac who refused all food, asked for some breakfast after having 
stayed twenty-four hours in the same red chamber. In a blue one, 
a highly excited madman, with a strait waistcoat on, was kept all 
day ; an hour after, he appeared much calmer. The action of blue 
light is very intense on the optic nerve, and seems to cause a sort 
of oppression. A patient was made to pass the night in a violet 
chamber ; on the following day he begged Dr. Ponza to send him 
home, because he felt himself cured ; and, indeed, he has been 
well ever since. Dr. Ponza's conclusions from his experiments are 
these : " The violet rays are, of all others, those that possess the 
most intense electro-chemical power ; the red light is also very 
rich in calorific rays ; blue light, on the contrary, is quite devoid 
of them, as well as of chemical and electric ones. Its bene- 
ficial influence is hard to explain, as it is the absolute negation of 
all excitement ; it succeeds admirably in calming the furious ex- 
citement of maniacs." 



22 MAGNETISM AND HYGIENE. 

Now remember, if you have to go out into the cold air, after 
bathing the eyes in tepid water, dash a little cold water over them 
and dry well. 

The eclectic in therapeutics, which takes the highest and best 
from all Nature's laboratory, water, as well as magnetism, has good 
healing power ; water constitutes not only the greater portion of 
the human body, but is the medium of circulation, nutrition, ex- 
cretion, and purification, and bears with it a large amount of elec- 
tricity. Hot water alone would relax and weaken. Cold water 
is the element of stimulus, and the system may be gradually toned 
up with so much internal heat as to endure a large amount of cold 
water. All should bathe more or less to keep clean, but those who 
are pale, thin, and nervous must not bathe too frequently, as 
the water will be apt to conduct away some of their vitality, and 
will not give them the magnetic element which they most need ; 
such persons may take the light Cleopatra's bath. 

The time to bathe is three hours after breakfast, or about eleven 
in the forenoon. A full bath should never be taken after eating, 
not until three hours after the last meal, after copious drinking of 
wine or first sleep, then a Cleopatra bath. 

A cool bath is much better on rising in the morning than when 
retiring, as it is easier to get up a reaction when the system is fresh. 
Avoid bathing when very weary. No baths during menstruation. 
A bath for God's poor : on getting up in the morning, wet the 
hands in a little water, rub the wet hands over the whole body a 
few seconds, then wipe quick with a coarse towel, then stand in the 
sunshine if you can for five minutes, move the right hand from 
right to left on the bowels while standing in the sun. It will not 
cure a broken heart, but it might. Flannel cloths dipped in hot 
water and wrung nearly dry in another cloth, then placed quickly 
on the lower abdomen and left there for fifteen minutes, will 
soothe painful menstruation, colic, etc. For the poor only — the 
rich persons can buy. " Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it." 
Come, give me the Cleopatra's bath. 

You may talk about the serenity of heaven ; you may descant 
upon the ecstatic pleasures of the antique Elysium ; you may revel 
in a bed of roses, or inhale the sweet fragrance of violets ; you 
may luxuriate on a bed of velvety down, with lilliputian elfins 



HYGIENE. 23 

meandering over your body and tickling each particular pore with 
a celestial feather ; you may bask upon a bed of hyacinths, and 
drink in the perennial fragrance of millions of surrounding daifodils ; 
you may dream of an entrancing existence among the stalactites 
of a naiad's cave, with beautiful sprites to guess your every wish, 
and myriads of golden-haired mermaids anointing your body with 
the myrrh of delight, while chubby-faced dolls perpetually fan you 
with musk leaves and squirt unctuous nectars into your iniquitous 
system from thousands of golden flasks ; you may sport in the sun- 
shine of accumulating wealth ; you may rejoice in the possession 
of a doting wife without the usual mother-in-law ; you may have a 
bevy of vaccinated children ; you may have cousins in heaven, and 
uncles in San Andreas ; you may have no creditors ; you may have 
none other than dividend-paying stock ; you may have never gone 
to law, or paid a lawyer's fee ; in short, you may be existing in an 
atmosphere of perpetual bliss. But what — what, I may be per- 
mitted to vehemently breathe — what are all these to the exquisite, 
enchanting, beatific, transporting, ecstatic, luxurious, luscious, be- 
witching, enravishing, rapturous, seraphic, celestial, palmy, Saturn- 
ian, and transcendently thrilling sensations of a genuine Cleopatra's 
Bath, while the impurities of your system are exuding in prolific 
drops from seven millions of open pores. 'Tis the acme of bliss ! 
And as the perspiration meanders soothingly over your oleaginous 
cuticle, the delectable sensations experienced forcibly impress you 
that you have found the " distant Aiden," or that you are basking 
in the sunshine of the mythical Elysium. 

LUXURIES OF CLEOPATRA'S BATH. 

The use of oils and fats in medicines, either alone or in combination 
with other remedial agents, is of very ancient origin. Among the 
Jews, the act of anointing, as recorded in Scripture, was of the 
simplest character, and consisted usually in pouring oil upon the 
head from a horn or other receptacle, such as the alabaster box, 
broken, that the precious ointment it contained might be poured 
upon the head of Christ, as he sat at meat in the house of the Phar- 
isee. This form of anointing was customary as a mark of distinc- 



24 MAGNETISM AND HYGIENE. 

tion, as in the case of kings and priests. Isaiah refers to oil as 
ointment in medical treatment, and anointing was prescribed for 
the sick by St. James. An oil bath, according to Josephus, was 
one of the remedies employed in the case of Herod. 

Inunction of the whole body was practiced among the Greeks 
and Romans. The anointing of the Grecian athletes, as a prepara- 
tion for the exercises of the gymnasium and the national games, is 
ample proof that it was found beneficial, promoting at once supple- 
ness and strength, and restoring the tone to strained muscles. So 
important was the anointing considered that special slaves, known 
as Aliptoe, were set apart for this purpose. That the custom of 
anointing in connection with the bath is of great antiquity appears 
from Homer, who says in the Odyssey — 

" Sweet Poly caste took the pleasing toil 
To bathe the prince and pour the fragrant oil." 

And again, in the Iliad, Juno anoints herself with " oil ambrosial 
sweet," and Venus anoints the body of Hector with oil scented 
with roses. But it was in the Roman baths of Caracalla, of Con- 
stantine, of Diocletian, and Titus, and other emperors, that the act 
of anointing was carried to its greatest perfection as a means alike 
for pleasure and of health. Special rooms, known as the Unctua- 
rium, or Uleothesium, were provided. The slaves anointed the 
bathers from vials of gold, studded with the profusest gems, and 
containing the rarest oils, gathered from all quarters of the world. 
This was considered the main delight and extravagance of the bath, 
and from it ail felt the freshness of rejuvenated life. 

The neglect which has fallen upon the old method of inunction, 
which once constituted the main reliance of a school of physicians, 
(the Iatraleptics) is surprising, in view of its great virtues as a 
means of treatment in a variety of diseases. The fats and oils 
play a very important part in the nutrition of the body, and in the 
evolution of force for the exercise of function by the various organs 
and tissues. They are as essential to life as air or water. 

See Cleopatra's Oil. 



HYGIENE. 25 



THE CLEOPATEA BATH. 



The difference between the so-called Turkish baths and the 
Cleopatra Baths : 

There is no tobacco allowed, no pulling Chinese cigars. The 
weed is forbidden inside the marble walls. Tobacco-smoke will not 
pollute the fragrance of the place, or dim the windows, so richly 
stained with violet-colored glass. No tobacco to choke the fair 
magnetic manipulators in their humane duties. It cannot be that 
the use of the weed is conducive to efficient activity of the intel- 
lect, for physiologists all agree in pronouncing its effect to be that of 
a narcotic, and therefore repressive and deleterious to the nervous 
system of the user. 

Cleopatra loved sun baths. So there is an apartment for the 
pure white light, combining all the rays as they come from nature's 
glorious fountain. Remember, dear reader, Cleopatra's Bath em- 
braces all the modern improvements of Turkish baths, without its 
errors. 

JOHN M. MATTHEWS, M.D., Psychologist. 



PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 



THE DISCOVERY OF PHRENOLOGY. 

The science of phrenology was discovered by Dr. Frangois Joseph 
Gall, of Vienna. He was born in a village of the Grand Duchy of 
Baden, on the 9th of March, 1756. His father was a merchant, 
and mayor of Tifenburn, a village two leagues from Phorzheim, in 
Swabia. His parents, professing the Roman Catholic religion, had 
intended him for the church, but his natural dispositions were op- 
posed to it. His studies were pursued at Baden, afterwards at 
Brucksal, and then were continued at Strasburg, having selected 
the healing art for his profession. He went into the Medical 
School of Vienna in 1781, at which he gained great reputation. 

Dr. Gall, from an early age, was given to observation, and was 
struck with the mental peculiarities of his brothers and sisters, 
companions in play, and school-fellows. Some of his schoolmates 
were distinguished by the beauty of their penmanship, some by 
their success in arithmetic, and others by their talent for acquiring 
a knowledge of natural history or languages ; the composition of 
one was remarkable for elegance, while the style of another was 
formal and dry, and a third connected his reasonings in the closest 
manner, and clothed his arguments in the most forcible language. 
What arrested his attention was the large, prominent, and bright 
eyes of the scholars that possessed a great talent for language, to 
talk incessantly, and commit to memory, and repeat word for word. 
He immediately asked himself why there might not be a faculty 
for love, hope, fear, and courage, as well as for language. By 
observation, he found persons who were very courageous to possess 
a large development of brain immediately behind and above the 



PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 27 

ears, and those who were characterized for their pure and dis- 
interested love and kindness, to have the anterior superior portion 
of the head strongly developed. And thus, by observations and 
comparisons, he was led on step by step, until he conceived himself 
warranted in the opinion that the head was composed of a variety 
of faculties. He did not, as many have imagined, first dissect the 
brain, and pretend by that to have discovered the seat of the men- 
tal powers. Neither did he, as others have conceived, first map 
out the skull into various compartments, and assign a faculty to 
each, according as his imagination led him to conceive the place 
appropriated to the power. On the contrary, he first observed a 
concomitance between particular talents and dispositions, and par- 
ticular forms of the head. He next ascertained, by the removal 
of the skull, that the figure and size of the brain are indicated by 
these external forms ; and it was only after these facts were de- 
termined that the brain was minutely dissected and light thrown 
upon its structure. 

Dr. Gall was first known as an author in 1791. He commenced 
giving courses of lectures at Vienna, in 1796. After continuing 
his lectures for five years, on the 9th of January, 1802, the Aus- 
trian government issued an order that they should cease ; his 
doctrines being considered dangerous to religion. A general reg- 
ulation was made upon the occasion, prohibiting all private lec- 
tures, unless a special permission was obtained from the public 
authorities. 

Dr. Gall understood the object of this general regulation, and 
never solicited permissson, but rather stopped his courses. The 
doctrine, however, continued to be studied with greater zeal than 
before. The prohibition strongly stimulated curiosity, and all 
publications on the subject continued to be permitted, provided 
they abstained from reflecting on the government for issuing the 
order. 

Great credit should be awarded to Dr. Spurzheim, the pupil of 
Dr. Gall from 1800 to 1804, after which period he was associated 
with Gall in his labors ; and subsequently to that period he not 
only added many valuable discoveries to those of Dr. Gall, in the 
anatomy and physiology of the brain, but principally contributed 
to form the truths brought to light by their respective observations, 



28 PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 

into a beautiful and interesting system of mental philosophy. In 
Great Britain, we are indebted chiefly to his personal exertions for 
the knowledge of the science. From 1801 until 1813, Gall and 
Spurzheim traveled through many parts of the globe together, 
making discoveries upon this interesting and useful science. 

In November, 1807, Dr. Gall, assisted by Dr. Spurzheim, de- 
livered his first course of public lectures in Paris. His lectures 
were illustrated by a numerous collection of skulls, heads, casts, 
and by a multiplicity of anatomical and physiological facts. Great 
indeed was the ardor excited among the French by the presence of 
the men who, as they supposed, would tell their fortunes by their 
heads. Everybody wanted to get a peep at them ; every one was 
anxious to give a dinner or a supper. There was a list on which 
an eager candidate was delighted to inscribe himself for a break- 
fast, distant three months and a half, at which breakfast he sat a 
wondering guest. 

In 1808, they presented a joint memoir on the anatomy of the 
brain to the French Institute. In 1809, Gall and Spurzheim com- 
menced publishing their magnificent work entitled " The Anatomy 
and Physiology of the Nervous System in general, and of the 
Brain in particular, with observations upon the possibility of ascer- 
taining several Intellectual and Moral Dispositions of Man and 
Animals by the configuration of their heads " ; four volumes folio, 
with an atlas of 100 plates ; price, 1,000 francs. This great work 
was continued by the joint exertions of Gall and Spurzheim to the 
completion of two and a half volumes, and was ultimately finished 
by Gall in 1819. This work, which cost so much time and ex- 
pense, came so high that most of the laboring classes were unable 
to purchase it ; but Dr. Gall, having a great desire to spread his 
doctrines throughout the globe, was induced, from 1822 to 1826, 
to publish an edition of his work without plates, in six volumes, that 
would come within the means of all. 

In 1819, at the request of the Minister of the Interior, Dr. Gall 
commenced giving courses of lectures in the large examination 
room of the hospital in Paris. His audience amounted to between 
two and three hundred ; and so eagerly was he attended, that 
many more tickets were applied for at each course than could be 



PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 29 

given, and the apartment was regularly crowded half an hour be 
fore the lecture began. 

The physiognomical expression of some of the English students 
who were present at Blainvelle's lecture, and who probably knew 
nothing of phrenology but through the English reviews, was truly 
ludicrous. They seemed to relax their features for a laugh when 
the name of Dr. Gall first escaped the lips of the professor ; but 
when they heard him spoken of with respect, and his doctrine de- 
clared to be true, the expression changed into wonder and surprise 
in some, and in others to absolute contempt. 

In March, 1828, at the conclusion of one of his lectures, Dr. 
Gall was seized with a paralytic attack, from which he never per- 
fectly recovered, and which ultimately carried him off on the 26th 
of August, 1828, in the seventy-second year of his age. His re- 
mains were followed to the grave by an immense concourse of 
friends, five of whom pronounced discourses over his grave. The 
death of this illustrious man was an immense loss to phrenology, 
physiology, and medicine ; and for the proof of these statements, 
we have only to examine the vast number of works he has left be- 
hind him. 

In 1813, the united labors of Dr. Gall and Dr. Spurzheim 
ceased, and each pursued his discoveries separate. Spurzheim left 
Paris to visit Vienna and Great Britain in 1828. He afterward 
came to the United States, and died' in Boston on the 10th of 
November, 1832, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. He was a 
man possessing an extraordinarily well-balanced head, with strong 
temperaments harmoniously developed. He was honest, candid, 
and persevering, and was instrumental in converting the most 
learned and scientific men of France and England to the belief of 
phrenology. He introduced the science into our own country, and 
here his name will be remembered as long as talents are admired, 
virtue honored, and genius appreciated. 

DEFINITION AND PROOFS OF PHRENOLOGY. 

Phrenology — derived from two Greek words meaning " mind " 
and " discourse " — points out certain cause-and-effect relations 



30 PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 

existing between particular forms or developments and conditions 
of the brain, and their accompanying manifestations of the 
mind, and predicates the respective peculiarities of the character and 
talents of different persons from the forms, sizes, and other organic 
conditions of their brains. 

It must, of necessity, be either true or false. If true, it con- 
stitutes a distinctive department of nature, and must, therefore, 
harmonize with all her other departments ; but if false, it must 
needs conflict with her laws and facts. Surely, then, it need not 
be difficult to ascertain whether it thus agrees or conflicts with 
nature. 

Its distinctive doctrines are that : 

The mind is composed of different primary powers or forces, 
called faculties, each of which manifests a specific class of the 
mental functions. 

Thus, the feeling of sympathy is the product of one mental 
faculty, called Benevolence, and memory of facts is put forth by 
another, called Eventuality ; while reasoning by induction is ex- 
ercised by another, called Comparison : and thus that there exist as 
many primary mental capacities as man can experience different 
kinds of mental functions. 

That the mind consists of several elemental faculties, and not of 
one single power, is evinced by — 

1. The different inherent traits and instincts of different persons 
and animals. The duck " takes to " water, and the eagle to crags ; 
the lion to flesh and the horse to grain ; one man to letters and another 
to mechanics ; one to philanthropy and another to money, etc., 
because impelled thereto by strong innate proclivities. " Poets 
are born, not educated." 

2. Monomania is consequent on the derangement of one mental 
faculty, while all the other faculties are sane. If it consisted in 
only one element, all its functions must needs be deranged or sane 
together, according as this one was sane or insane. 

Phrenology teaches that the brain is the organ of the mind ; 
that a large brain, with organic quality very good, is superior in 
power to a smaller one ; that an active brain will accomplish much 
more than a dull one of the same size ; that all great geniuses 



PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 



31 



have large heads and active temperaments ; that in proportion as 
the head is small and the temperament dull, will the person be 
deficient ; that the brain is composed of a plurality of organs, part 
of which may act at the same time, while others lay dormant ; 
that dreaming is caused by most of the organs being asleep while 
some are partially awake ; that an organ is a faculty of the mind, 
having a specific function to perform, as hope, fear, or memory of 
events, which may act or rest separately, or in company with other 
organs, depending on the circumstances of the case. 

The skull, or superior expansion of the vertebral column, is com- 
posed of four vertebrae, the elementary parts of which are specially 
modified in form and size, and are almost immovably connected, 
for the reception of the brain and special organs of the senses. 
These vertebrae are the occipital, parietal, frontal, and nasal. 
Descriptive anatomists, however, divide the skull into two parts, 
the cranium and the face. The cranium is composed of eight 
bones, viz : the occipital, two parietal, frontal, two temporal, sphe- 
noid, and ethmoid. The face is composed of fourteen bones, viz : 
the two nasal, two superior maxillary, two lachrymal, two malar, 
two palate,- two inferior turbinated, vomer, inferior maxillary. The 
ossicula auditus, the teeth, and wormian bones are not included 
in this enumeration. The falx separates the two hemispheres of 
the brain ; hence, convolutions of the brain, or phrenological or- 
gans, are dual ; and as they are exercised, the various bones of 
the cranium become thin and expand. 



Skull, 22 bones. { 



^Face, 14 bones. 



''Cranium, 8 bones. < 



Occipital. 

Two Parietal. 

Frontal. 

Two Temporal. 

Sphenoid. 

Ethmoid. 

Two Nasal. 



Two Superior Maxillary. 
Two Lachrymal. 
Two Malar. 
^ Two Palate. 
Two Inferior Turbinated. 
Vomer. 
^Inferior Maxillary. 



32 PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 



SIZE OF BKAIN. 



Size, other things being equal, indicates the power of function. 

That this proposition expresses a general law is evinced by the 
general fact that the larger the pieces of wood, iron, etc., are, the 
stronger they are ; that larger horses, persons, etc., are proportion- 
ally more powerful than smaller, and thus of everything else. 
Though sometimes smaller men, horses, etc., are stronger, can lift, 
draw, and endure more than others that are larger, because they 
are different in organic quality, health, etc., yet where the quality 
is the same, whichever is largest is proportionally the most powerful. 

And this undisputed law of things is equally true of the brain, 
and that mental power put forth thereby. All really great men 
have great heads — merely smart ones, or those great only in cer- 
tain faculties or specialties of character, not always. The brains 
of Cuvier, Byron, and Spurzheim were among the very heaviest 
ever weighed. True, Byron's hat was small, doubtless because his 
brain was conical, and most developed in its base ; but its great 
weight establishes its great size. So does that of Bonaparte. Be- 
sides, he wore a very large hat — one which passed clear over the 
head of Colonel Lehmenouski, one of his body-guard, whose head 
measured 23i inches, so that Bonaparte's head must have measured 
nearly or quite 24 inches. Webster's head was massive, measur- 
ing over 24 inches, and Clay's 23 j- ; and that is about Van Buren's 
size. Chief Justice Gibson's, the greatest jurist of Pennsylvania, 
was 24i ; and Hamilton's hat passed over the head of a man whose 
head measured 23J. Burke's head was immense ; so was Jeffer- 
son's ; while Franklin's hat passed over the ears of a 24-inch head. 
Judge McLean's head exceeded 23i inches. The heads of Wash- 
ington, Adams, and a thousand other celebrities, were also very 
large. Bright, apt, smart, literary, knowing, even eloquent men, 
etc., often have only average, even moderate-sized heads, because 
endowed with the very highest organic quality, yet such are more 
admired than commanding — more brilliant than powerful — more 
acute than profound. Though they may show off well in an ordi- 
nary sphere, yet they are not the men for great occasions, nor have 



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they that giant force of intellect which moulds and sways nations 
and ages. The phrenological law is, that size, other things being 
equal, is a measure of power ; yet these other conditions, such as 
activity, power, motive, health, physiological habits, etc., increase 
or diminish the mentality even more than size. Quality is more im- 
portant than quantity, but true greatness requires both cerebral 
quantity and quality. 

Still, those again who have very large heads are sometimes al- 
most foolish, because their organic quality is low. As far, then, as 
concerns phrenology itself, this doctrine of size appertains to the 
different organs in the same head, rather than to different 
heads. Still, this doctrine, that size is the measure of power, is no 
more a special doctrine of phrenology than of every other depart- 
ment of nature. And those who object to this science on this 
ground are objecting to a known law of things. If size were the 
only condition of power, their cavils might be worthy of notice ; as 
it is, they are not. 

Though tape measurements, taken around the head, from Indi- 
viduality to Philoprogenitiveness or Parental Love, give some idea 
of the size of the brain, the fact that- some heads are round and 
others long, some low and others high, etc., so modifies these meas- 
urements that they do not convey any very correct idea of the 
actual quantity of brain. Yet these measurements range some- 
what as follows in adults : 

7, or Very Large, 23| inches, and upward ; 6, or Large, from 
22| to 23| ; 5, or Full, from 22 to 22|- ; 4, or Average, from 21£ 
to 22; 3, or Moderate, from 20f to 21£ ; 2, or Small, from 20 to 
20| ; 1, below 20. Female heads are half an inch to an inch 
below these measurements. Those whose heads are — 

7, or Very Large. — With quality good, are naturally great ; 
with quality and activity 6 or 7, and the intellectual organs 6 or 7, 
are a natural genius, a mental giant ; even without education, will 
surmount all disadvantages, learn with wonderful facility, sway 
mind, and become pre-eminent ; with the organs of practical intel- 
lect and the propelling powers 6 or 7, will possess natural abilities 
of the first order ; manifest a clearness and force of intellect which 
will astonish mankind, and a power of feeling which will carry all 



34 PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 

before them, and, with proper cultivation, become bright stars in the 
firmament of intellectual greatness, upon which coming ages will 
gaze with delight and astonishment. With quality and activity 5 
or 4, are great on great occasions, and, when thoroughly roused, 
manifest splendid talents, and naturally take the lead among men, 
otherwise not ; with activity or quality deficient,, must cultivate 
much in order to become much. 

6. Large. — With activity and quality 6 or 7, combine great 
power of mind with great activity, exercise a commanding influence 
over other minds to sway and persuade, and enjoy and suffer in the 
extreme ; with perceptives 6, can conduct a large business or un- 
dertaking successfully, rise to eminence, if not pre-eminence, and 
evince great originality and power of intellect, strong native sense, 
superior judgment, great force of character and feeling, and make 
a conspicuous and enduring mark on the intellectual or business 
world, or in whatever direction those superior capacities are put 
forth. With activity and quality 5, are endowed with superior 
natural talents, yet require strong incentives to call them out ; un- 
developed by circumstances, may pass through life without ac- 
complishing much, or attracting notice, or evincing more than ordi- 
nary parts ; but with the perceptive and forcible organs also 6, and 
talents disciplined and called out, manifest a vigor and energy far 
above mediocrity ; are adequate to carry forward great undertak- 
ings, demanding originality and force of mind and character, yet 
are rather indolent. With activity only average, possess consider- 
able energy of intellect and feeling, yet seldom manifest it, unless 
brought out by some powerful stimulus, and are rather too indolent 
to exert, especially intellect. 

5. Full. — With quality or activity 6 or 7, and the organs of 
practical intellect and of the propelling powers large, or very large, 
although not really great in intellect, or deep, are very clever ; 
have considerable talent, and that so distributed that it shows to be 
even more or better than it really is ; are capable of being a good 
scholar, doing a fine business, and, with advantages and application, 
of becoming distinguished somewhat, yet inadequate to great un- 
dertakings ; cannot sway an extensive influence, nor become really 
great, yet have excellent natural capacities ; with activity 4 or 5, 



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will do tolerably well, and manifest a common share of talent ; with 
activity only 3, will neither be nor do much worthy of notice. 

4. Average. — With activity 6, manifest a quick, clear, sprightly 
mind, and off-hand talents, and are capable of doing a fair busi- 
ness, especially if the stamina is good. 

3, 2, and 1. — You are weak in mind and need the guidance of 
other intellects in every undertaking ; are incapable of managing 
any business. 

ORGANIC QUALITY. 

Persons can, in texture, be- compared to wood or cloth. The 
stern, rugged, or solid man can be compared to lignum vitce or the 
rugged oak. Then we have the dish-water man, all swash and 
softness ; he can be compared to basswood or poplar ; the poplar 
man is coarse and gross, not finely organized ; the basswood man 
can stand but little outward pressure from others, and is easily 
broken. Some persons are like coarse tow, or linen cloth, the rag- 
tag of all creation ; others are like the finer grades of silk and 
satin. Fine-grained persons wear well, but are out of place in 
the coarse drudgeries. 

Very Good. — You are 7 degrees of development in organic 
quality. You are delicate in structure, with small bones, moder- 
ate development of muscle, finely-cut features, and a high organism 
generally. Brain predominates over body, and your mental states 
have a powerful influence over your physical condition. Are pre- 
eminently fine-grained, pure-minded, ethereal, sentimental, refined, 
high-toned, intense in emotion, full of human nature, most ex- 
quisitely susceptible to impressions of all kinds, most poetic in 
temperament, lofty in aspiration, and endowed with wonderful in- 
tuition as to truth, what is right, best, etc. ; are unusually developed 
in the interior or spirit life, and far above most of those with whom 
they come in contact, and hence find few congenial spirits, and are 
neither understood nor appreciated ; when sick, suffer inexpress- 
ibly, and, if children, are precocious — too smart, too good to live, 
and absolutely must be treated physiologically, or die early. 

Good. — You are 6 in the organic quality. You have a re- 
markably refined, sensitive, and delicate organization ; are suscept- 



36 PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 

ible of exquisite enjoyment and intense suffering ; and are delicate 
in structure, with small bones, a moderate development of muscle, 
finely cut features ; you are adapted to fine and light work. 

Full. — You are 5, neither a coarse nor fine quality; your tastes 
are elevated rather than degrading ; you have a love of the beau- 
ties of nature and art ; you look upon marble statuary with ad- 
miration, and you would make a good warming-pan for a living 
statue. 

Average. — You are 4 ; there is a good deal of homespun about 
you. 

Moderate. — You are 3, rough and ready. 

Small and Very Small. — You are of the dish-water quality. 

How to Cultivate. — First, guard against excess ; remember, 
excess -is the only devil there is. Tobacco, poisonous liquors, pork, 
and late suppers feed the animal passions ; 0, try and obey the 
Hygiene Law. Put yourself in the way of moral and religious 
influences, and cultivate the intellectual faculties, so far as you 
are able. 

STATE OF THE HEALTH. 

Health consists in the normal and vigorous exercise of all the 
physical functions, and disease in their abnormal action. Health 
is pleasurable, disease painful. Health is life, for life consists in 
the normal action of those same functions in which health consists. 
And to improve health is to increase life itself, and all its pleasures. 
Some writer has appropriately defined health thus : 

Planting your foot upon the green sward, looking around, and 
yielding yourself to whatever feelings naturally arise, health is pro- 
portionate to that buoyant, jubilant, exhilarating, ecstatic feeling 
which supervenes. It is to all our functions what motive power is 
to machinery — sets them off with a rush and a bound. It both 
makes us happy, and causes everything else to increase that hap- 
piness. 

But disease renders us miserable, and turns everything around 
us into occasion of misery. It both weakens and perverts our 
mental being. Indeed, health is the quintessence of every earthly 
good — disease of every terrestrial evil. Poor indeed is he, how- 



PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 37 

ever rich in money, in honors, in office, in everything else whatso- 
ever, whose health is poor ; for how can he enjoy his dollars and 
honors ? But rich indeed is he who is healthy, however poor in 
money, for he enjoys whatsoever he has or is. A rich man may, 
indeed, purchase a luxuriant dinner, but without health does not, 
cannot relish it ; whereas, a poor man, with health, enjoys even a 
dry crust. 

7. Very Good. — You are full of life ; vigorous, strong, buoy- 
ant, and hearty in the highest degree, and enjoy exquisite pleasure 
in the mere sense of animal existence. The present state of your 
lungs, heart, stomach, liver, gall-bladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, 
and intestines is perfect. 

6. Good. — All your bones, muscles, and nerves are apparently 
in good working order, and you enjoy the exercise of every organ 
of body and brain. 

5. Full. — You have a full share of vigor and vital stamina. 

4. Average. — You have a fair degree of health. 

3. Moderate. — You are deficient in vitality, are easily fatigued, 
often ailing, and seldom capable of any great degree of phys- 
ical or mental exertion. You must avoid overdoing, and make the 
restoration of your health your first object. Stop all unnecessary 
drafts upon your remaining stock of vitality, and seek, by means of 
rest, sleep, and recreation, to increase it. Drinking, smoking, 
chewing, late hours, and all kinds of dissipation, must be entirely 
avoided. Take the Cleopatra Bath. 

2. Poor. — You have but a small amount of health left. 

1. You are ready for cremation. 

THE TEMPERAMENTS. 

Earth, water, air, and fire — or solids, fluids, gases, and mag- 
netisms — from this classification was derived the arrangement of 
the temperaments, bilious, phlegmatic, sanguine, and nervous. 

There are four temperaments, accompanied with different de- 
grees of activity in the brain — the lymphatic, the sanguine, the 
bilious, and the nervous. The temperaments are supposed to de- 
pend upon the constitution of particular conditions of the body ; 



38 PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 

the brain and nerves, being predominantly active from constitu- 
tional causes, seem to produce the nervous temperament; the 
lungs, heart, and blood-vessels, being constitutionally predominant, 
to give rise to the sanguine ; the muscular and fibrous systems, to 
the bilious ; and the glands and assimilating organs, to the lym- 
phatic. 

The different temperaments are indicated by external signs, 
which are open to observation. 

Phrenology and physiology, combined, prove that there is as much 
depending on the quality as the quantity of brain, and by the aid 
of the temperaments we are enabled to judge with a greater de- 
gree of accuracy than it would be possible for us to do without. 
In fact, a knowledge of the temperaments is as essential to a suc- 
cessful prosecution of the study of phrenology as a knowledge of 
the four ground rules of arithmetic is to a general knowledge of 
mathematics. 

The degrees of development are marked from 1 to 7. 

You are 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 

1. Your lymphatic or phlegmatic temperament is indicated by a 
general roundness and softness of the body and muscular system, 
fair hair, pale skin, and a sluggish circulation of the blood. The 
brain suffers by the inactivity of the system, and an indolent, ease- 
seeking disposition follows. 

2. Your sanguine or vital temperament is indicated by a well- 
defined and moderate fullness of form, and firmness of muscle, 
light hair and eyes, and fair complexion, with a ruddy, animated 
countenance. It is marked by a great rapidity in the circulation 
of the blood, and general desire for bodily exercise. The brain, of 
course, is quite active. 

3. Your bilious or motive temperament is indicated by a dark 
complexion, black hair and eyes, moderate fullness, and much firm- 
ness of flesh, large muscles and bones, stout features, bones pro- 
jecting, expressed outline of person, with great physical strength, 
and power of endurance, both of body and mind, but only mod- 
erate activity. 

4. Your nervous or mental temperament is distinguished by a 
delicately constituted body, small features, weak and small mus- 



PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 39 

cles, fine hair, white, thin, and clear skin, delicate health, and 
liable to earlj decay. The brain is extremely sensitive and excit- 
able, with a rapid circulation of the whole nervous system. The 
mental manifestations are consequently vivid, intense, and rapid. ■ 

The temperaments are generally blended together, and are sel- 
dom found in a separate state. A large share of the nervous, 
sanguine, and bilious combined is most favorable to a literary 
pursuit, and produces both power and activity of body and mind. 
.A person with this combination large, or very large, will drive the 
concrete mind up to great effort to accomplish such objects as the 
largest organs and ruling passions may dictate. One with this 
temperament is susceptible, overflowing with feeling, and agitated 
with emotions, whether of grief or joy. When he enjoys, it is with 
the most intense fervency ; and when he suffers, his sufferings are 
extremely excruciating. Men who rise to eminence frequently 
possess this temperament, with a large-sized head. 

The sanguine bilious is not an unfavorable temperament. It 
imparts great mental power, but generally there is some particular 
weakness lurking in the system. This temperament is possessed by 
the hard-working classes; and they show their talents more in 
business than in literary pursuits. 

The nervous bilious unites great activity with strength. The 
intellectual manifestations are liable to be infused. This gives the 
off-hand talent ; and generally an individual is able to summon his 
energies into action at a moment's warning. 

The lymphatic mind, with the bilious, gives corporeal strength, 
and an individual needs favorable circumstances and a great 
amount of excitement to urge him up to action that is absolutely 
necessary for his well-being. 

The sanguine lymphatic is an unfavorable temperament. The 
abdomen is too large for the brain and bones. It produces a great 
disposition to eat, sleep, live, and take ease. 

The lymphatic, blended with the nervous, in an individual, 
causes one to steer clear of hard work or hard study, and lacks 
strength and power of endurance. 

The nervous, blended with the sanguine, gives an individual a 
desire to follow some intellectual pursuit, or some mechanical trade, 



40 PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 

or to follow some light, clean business, and is often accompanied 
with much vehemence of physical action, and splendor of mind, 
yet it lacks perseverance and determination. The mental mani- 
festations burn brilliantly, yet they are soon extinguished, the ex- 
citability being superior to the power of endurance. 

These temperaments are often changed by climate, mode of 
living, exercise, diet, etc.' Notice a hundred boys reared in the 
country, whose physical energies are expanded by the cultivation 
of the soil, and breathing the fresh and invigorating air ; and then 
notice the same number of boys born and brought up in a large 
city, without labor, sent to school, pent up in stores, or immured 
in a library or an office, in a filthy street, where there is little 
or no wholesome air, sixteen hours out of twenty-four, and mark the 
result at the age of twenty-one. Those in the country will gen- 
erally be of a strong, energetic physical constitution, while those 
in the city will generally be small and slender, looking poor, ema- 
ciated, and dyspeptic. 

A WELL-BALANCED TEMPERAMENT 

Is by far the best. That most favorable to true greatness and gen- 
eral genius, to strength of character, along with perfection, and 
to harmony and consistency throughout, is one in which each is 
strongly marked, and all about equally developed. 

ACTIVITY INDICATED BY LENGTH. 

In and by the nature of things, length of form facilitates ease of 
action. Thus, deer, gazelle, greyhound, giraffe, tiger, weasel, eel, 
and all long and slim animals, are quick-motioned, lively, sprightly, 
nimble, and agile. The same principle applies equally to persons. 
Thus, those very long-favored, or in whom this form is 

7. Are as quick as a flash to perceive and do ; agile ; light-motion- 
ed ; limber-jointed ; nimble ; always in motion ; restless as the 
wind ; talk too rapidly to be emphatic ; have no lazy bones in their 
bodies ; are always moving head, hands, feet, something ; are 
natural scholars. 



PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 41 

6. Great. — Yours is a restless, active, lively organization. 

5 and 4. Full or Average. — You have a fair degree of mental 
activity. 

3,2, and 1. — You are too slow to be of much service to yourself 
or anybody else — decidedly inert. 

EXCITABILITY INDICATED BY SHARPNESS. 

All sharp things are, in and by the very nature of their form, 
penetrating, of which the needle furnishes an example. And this 
law applies equally to human beings. From time immemorial a 
sharp nose has been considered indicative of a scolding disposition ; 
yet it is equally so of intensity in the other feelings, as well as 
those which scold. 

7. Are extremely susceptible to impressions of all kinds ; in- 
tensely excited by trifles ; apt to magnify good, bad, everything, 
far beyond the reality ; a creature of impulse and mere feeling ; 
subject to extreme ups and downs of emotion ; one hour in the 
garret, the next in the cellar : extremely liable to neuralgia and 
nervous affections ; with quality and activity 6 or 7, have ardent 
desires ; intense feelings ; keen susceptibilities ; enjoy and suffer 
in the extreme; are whole-souled ; sensitive; positive in likes and 
dislikes ; cordial ; enthusiastic ; impulsive ; have hobbies ; abound 
in good feeling, yet are quick-tempered ; excitable ; liable to ex- 
tremes ; have a great deal of soul or passion, and warmth of feel- 
ing; are brilliant writers or speakers, but too refined and 
sensitive for the mass of mankind ; gleam in the career of genius, 
but burn out the vital powers on the altar of nervous excitability. 

6. Are like 7, only less so ; warm-hearted, impetuous, impul- 
sive, full of soul, and too susceptible to external influences ; swayed 
too much by feeling ; and need much self-government and coolness. 

5. Are sufficiently sensitive and susceptible to exciting causes, 
yet not passional, nor impulsive ; and easily roused, yet not easily 
carried away by excitements. With activity 6 or 7, are very 
quick, but perfectly cool ; decide and act instantly, yet knowingly ; 
do nothing without thinking, but think and do instantaneously ; are 

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42 PHRENOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 

never flustered, but combine great rapidity with perfect self- 
possession. 

4. Are like the placid lake — no waves, no noise, and evince the 
same quiet spirit under all circumstances. 

3. Are rather phlegmatic ; slow to perceive and feel ; rather cold. 



PHYSIOGNOMY 



PHYSIOGNOMY A TRUE SCIENCE. 

That nature has instituted a science of physiognomy as a facial 
expression of mind and character is proclaimed by the very instincts 
of man and animals. Cannot the very dog tell whether his master 
is pleased or displeased, and the very slave who will make a good 
and who a cruel master — and all by the expression of the counte- 
nance ? The fact is, that nature compels all her productions to 
proclaim their interior virtues — their own shame, even — and hoists 
a true flag of character at their mast-head, so that he who runs may 
read. 

Thus, all apples both tell that they possess apple character by 
their apple shape, but what hind of apple — whether good, bad, or 
indifferent — by their special forms, colors, etc. ; all fish, not only 
that they are fish, but whether trout or sturgeon, and all humans 
that they are human by their outline aspect. And thus of all things. 

Moreover, though all human beings have the general human form 
and features — though all have eyes, nose, mouth, skin, etc. — yet 
every one has a different face and look from every other. And 
more yet, the same person has a very different facial look at differ- 
ent times, according as he is angry or friendly, etc. And always 
the same look when in the same mood. Of course, then, something 
causes this expression — especially since all who are angry, friendly, 
etc., have one general or similar expression; that is, one look ex- 
presses anger, another affection, another devotion, another kindness, 
etc. And since nature always works by means, she must needs 
have her physiognomical tools. Nor are they under the control »f 
will, for they act spontaneously. We cannot help, whether we will 



44 PHYSIOGNOMY. 

or no, laughing when merry, even though in church, pouting when 
provoked, and expressing all our mental operations, down even to 
the very innermost recesses of our souls, in and by our counte- 
nances : and with more minuteness and completeness than by 
words, especially when the expressions are intense or peculiar. 
Spirits are said to converse mainly by their expressions of counte- 
nance — to look their thoughts and emotions, instead of talking them. 

Certain it is that the countenance expresses a greater amount of 
thought and feeling, together with their nicer shades and phases, 
than words can possibly communicate. By what means, then, is 
this effected ? By magnetic centers, called poles. Every physical 
and mental organ has its pole stationed in a given part of the face, 
so that, when such organ acts, it influences such poles, and con- 
tracts those facial muscles which express this action. That there 
exists an intimate relation between the stomach and one part of the 
face, the lungs and another, etc., is proved by the fact that con- 
sumptive patients always have a hectic flush on the cheek, just 
externally from the lower portion of the nose, while inactive lungs 
cause paleness, and healthy ones give the rosy cheek ; and that 
dyspeptic patients are always lank and thin opposite the double 
teeth, while those whose digestion is good are full between the cor- 
ners of the mouth and lower portion of the ears. Since, therefore, 
some of the states of some of the internal organs express themselves 
in the face, of course every organ of the body must do the same. 
The magnetic pole of the heart is in the chin ; hence, those whose 
circulation is vigorous have broad and rather prominent chins, 
while those who are small and narrow-chinned have feeble hearts ; 
and thus all the other internal organs have their magnetic poles in 
various parts of the face. Now, since the beard covers these 
facial poles of the internal organs, of course it helps to guard 
heart, viscera, etc., from atmospheric changes. Obviously, it was 
not created for naught, and cannot be amputated with impunity. 
It also protects the throat and chest, especially of elderly men, 
and why shave off this natural sign of masculinity ? Shaving is, 
to say the least of it, rather barbarous. 

So all the phrenological organs have likewise their facial poles, 
some of which are as follows : That of Acquisitiveness is on each 



PHYSIOGNOMY. 45 

side of the middle portion of the nose, at its junction with the 
cheek, causing breadth of nose in proportion to the money-grasp- 
ing instincts, as in Jews ; while a narrow nose indicates a want of 
the speculative turn. Firmness is indicated by length, prominence, 
and a compression of the upper lip. Hence, when we would ex- 
hort to determined perseverance, we say, " Keep a stiff upper lip." 
Self-esteem has its pole externally from that of Firmness, and be- 
tween the outer portion of the nose and the mouth, causing a fullness, 
as if a quid were under the upper lip. The affections have their 
poles in the edges of the lips ; hence the philosophy of kissing. 
The pole of Mirthfulness is located outward and upward from the 
outer corners of the mouth ; hence the drawing up of these cor- 
ners in laughter. Approbativeness has its pole directly outward 
from these corners, and hence the approbative laugh does not turn 
the corners of the mouth upward, but draws them straight back, 
or outwardly. Like locations are assigned to all the other organs. 
That physiognomy has its science — that fixed and absolute rela- 
tions exist between the phrenological organs and given portions 
of the face — is an unquestionable truth. By these and other 
means, the inherent character of every living being and thing 
gushes out through every organ of the body, every avenue of the 
soul ; and both brute and man have a character-reading faculty, to 
take intuitive cognizance of the mental operations. Nor will she 
let any one lie, any more than lie herself, but compels all to carry 
their hearts in their hands, so that all acquainted with these signs 
may read them through. If we attempt deception, the very effort 
convicts us. And if all nature's signs of character were fully 
understood, all could read, not only all the main characters of all 
they see, but even most thoughts and feelings passing in the 
mind of a person for the time being — a gift worth more than 
Reese's millions. And the great rule for reading one and all is, 
study all one says and does, ask why, what did, or said, this or 
that, and especially yield yourself up to drink in or be affected by 
these manifestations. 



46 PHYSIOGNOMY. 



COLOR AND TEXTURE OF HAIR, SKIN, BEARD, ETC. 

Everything in nature is colored, inside and out ; and the color 
always corresponds with the character. Nature paints her coarse 
productions in coarse drab, but adorns all her finer, more exquisite 
productions with her most beautiful colors. Thus, highly-colored 
fruits are always highly-flavored ; the birds of the highest quality 
are arrayed in the most gorgeous tints and hues. 

So, also, particular colors signify particular qualities. Thus, 
throughout all nature, black signifies power, or a great amount of 
character ; red, the ardent, loving, intense, concentrated, positive ; 
green, immaturity ; yellow, ripeness, richness, etc. Hence, all 
black animals are powerful, of which the bear, Morgan horse, black 
snake, etc., furnish examples. So, black fruits, as the blackberry, 
black raspberry, whortleberry, black Tartarian cherry, etc., are 
highly-flavored and full of rich juices. So, also, the dark races, 
as Indian and African, are strong, muscular, and very tough. All 
red fruits are acid, as the strawberry ; but the darker they are the 
sweeter, as the Baldwin, gillifleur, etc.; while striped apples blend 
the sweet with the sour. But whatever is growing, that is, still 
immature, is green; but all grasses, grains, fruits, etc., pass, while 
ripening, from the green to the yellow, and sometimes through the 
red. The red and yellow fruits are always delicious. Other pri- 
mary colors signify other characteristics. 

Now, since coarseness and fineness of texture indicate coarse and 
fine-grained feelings and characters, and since black signifies power, 
and red ardor, therefore coarse black hair and skin signify great 
power of character of some kind, along with considerable tendency 
to the sensual ; yet fine black hair and skin indicate strength of 
character, along with purity and goodness. Dark-skinned nations are 
always behind the light-skinned in all the improvements of the age, 
as well as in the higher and finer manifestations of humanity. So, 
too, dark-haired persons, like Webster, sometimes called " Black 
Dan," possess great power of intellect and propensity, yet lack the 
finer and more delicate shadings of sensibility and purity. Coarse 
black hair and skin, and coarse red hair and whiskers, indicate 



PHYSIOGNOMY. 47 

powerful animal passions, together with corresponding strength of 
character; while fine, or light, or auburn hair indicates quick sus- 
ceptibilities, together with refinement and good taste. Fine dark 
or brown hair indicates the combination of exquisite susceptibilities 
with great strength of character, while auburn hair, with a florid 
countenance, indicates the highest order of sentiment and intensity 
of feeling, along with corresponding purity of character, combined 
with the highest capacities for enjoyment and suffering. And the 
intermediate colors and textures indicate intermediate mentalities. 
Curly hair, or beard, indicates a crisp, excitable, and variable dispo- 
sition, and much diversity of character — now blowing hot, now 
cold — along with intense love and hate, gushing, glowing emotions, 
brilliancy and variety of talent. So look out for ringlets — they 
betoken April weather ; treat them gently, lovingly, and you will 
have the brightest, clearest sunshine, and the sweetest, balmiest 
breezes; but ruffle them, and you raise — 0, what a storm ! a very 
hurricane, changeable, now so very hot, now so cold — that you had 
better not ruffle them. And this is doubly true of auburn curls ; 
though auburn ringlets need but a little right, kind, fond treatment 
to render them all as fair and delightful as the brightest spring 
morning. 

Straight, even, smooth, and glossy hair indicates strength, har- 
mony, and evenness of character, and hearty, whole-souled affec- 
tions, as well as a clear head and superior talents ; while stiff, 
straight, black hair and* beard indicate a coarse, strong, rigid, 
straightforward character. Abundance of hair and beard signifies 
virility, and a great amount of character ; while a thin beard sig- 
nifies sterility, and a thinly-settled upper story, with rooms to let ; 
so that the beard is very significant of character. And we shall 
soon see a reason why it should not be shaven. 

Coarse-haired persons should never turn dentists or clerks, 
but seek some out-door employment ; and would be better con- 
tented with rough, hard work than a light or sedentary occupation, 
although mental and sprightly occupations would serve to refine and 
improve them ; while dark and fine-haired persons may choose 
purely intellectual occupations, and become lecturers or writers with 
fair prospects of success. Red-haired persons should seek out- 



48 PHYSIOGNOMY. 

door employment, for they require a great amount of air and ex- 
ercise ; while those who have light, fine hair should choose occupa- 
tions involving taste and mental acumen, yet take bodily exercise 
enough to tone up and invigorate their system. 

Generally, whenever skin, hair, or features are fine or coarse, 
the others are equally so. Yet some inherit fineness from one 
parent and coarseness from the other, while the color of the eye 
generally corresponds with that of the skin, and expresses char- 
acter. Light eyes indicate warmth of feeling, and dark eyes, 
power. 

Lady Apple, Bell de Choisy Cherry, etc., grow slowly, and have 
many small twigs and branches. Trees that bear red fruit, as the 
Baldwin, etc., have red inner bark ; while yellow and green-colored 
fruits grow on trees the inner rind of whose limbs is yellow or 
green. Peach-trees that bear early peaches have deeply-notched 
leaves, and the converse of late ones ; so that, by these and other 
physiognomical signs, experienced nurserymen can tell what a given 
tree bears at first sight. 

Correspondingly, long-handed persons have long fingers, toes, 
arms, legs, bodies, heads, and phrenological organs ; while short 
and broad-shouldered persons are short and broad-handed, fingered, 
faced, nosed, and limbed, and wide and low-bodied. When the 
bones on the hand are prominent, all the bones, nose included, are 
equally so, and thus of all other characteristics of the hand, and 
every other portion of all bodies. Hence, a hand thrust through 
a hole proclaims the general character of its owner, because if it is 
large or small, hard or soft, strong or weak, firm or flabby, coarse- 
grained or fine-textured, even or prominent, rough or smooth, small- 
boned or large-boned, or whatever else, the whole body is built 
upon the same principle, with which the brain and mentality also 
correspond. Hence, also, small-nosed persons have little soul, and 
large-nosed a great deal of character of some kind. 

Bonaparte chose large-nosed men for his generals, and the opin- 
ion prevails that large noses indicate long heads and strong minds. 
Not that great noses cause great minds, but that the motive or 
powerful temperament cause both. Flat noses indicate flatness of 
mind and character, by indicating a poor, low, organic structure. 



PHYSIOGNOMY. 49 

Broad noses indicate large passage-ways to the lungs, and this, large 
lungs and vital organs, and this, great strength of constitution and 
hearty animal passions, along with selfishness ; for broad noses, 
broad shoulders,, broad heads, and large animal organs go together. 
But when the nose is narrow at the base the nostrils are small, 
because the lungs are small, and need but small avenues for 
air ; and this indicates a predisposition to consumptive complaints. 

It seems to us to be, at least, very presumptive to claim that there 
is no merit or even a practical science in discerning human char- 
acteristics from the expressions of the face, after reading the fol- 
lowing testimonials from the Word of God : 

" The heart of man changeth his countenance whether it be for 
good or for evil ; and a merry heart maketh a cheerful counte- 
nance." Ecclesiastes, xiii : 25, 26. 

" A man may be known by his look, and one that hath under- 
standing by his countenance when thou meetest him." Ecclesi- 
astes, xxix: 30. 

" A wise man will hear and will increase learning." Prov., 
i : 5. 

" Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell." Gen., iv : 5. 

" The damsel was good of countenance, a virgin." Gen., 
xxiv : 16. 

" That my fury shall come up in my face." Ezekiel, xxxviii : 18. 

" The show of their countenance doth witness against them." 
Isa., iii: 3. 

" So doth the angry countenance, a back-biting tongue." Prov., 
xxv : 23. 

" They are hard of face and stiff-hearted." Ezekiel, ii : 4. 

" Wisdom is before him that hath understanding : but the eyes 
of a fool are in the ends of the earth." ^Prov., xvii: 19. 

" A wicked man hardeneth his face ; but as for the upright he 
directeth his way." Prov., xxi: 29. 

THE DEGREES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL 
SIGNS OF CHARACTER. 

7. Very Perfect. — Thou art seven degrees in the physiog- 
nomical signs of character, and your character corresponds with 



50 PHYSIOGNOMY. 

your organization. what a heaven-born countenance ; so ra- 
diant and transparent like an angel of light; so animated with 
affection ; so gentle, and yet so chaste, that keen desire cools off, 
and with saddening admiration gazes upon that expressive beauty, 
which only a virtuous and lovely woman can have. Those eyes 
bespeak the glories of thy soul, and a mind to comprehend thyself 
and nature's grandest laws. 

Now, Psyche and Venus may hold thy garments, while Titania 
and the Naiads prepare thy bath on the banks of Pactolus, and 
Flora will strew thy path with violets and red roses. Phoebus and 
the Muses will charm thy ear with sweet and dreamy music, so 
rare, so fine, and exquisite. For thee may Clotho spin her fairest 
thread. Listen, bachelors ! Why ? A beautiful mind in a beau- 
tiful body. Ah, Pygmalion would long for such a model. 

6. Perfect. — You are six degrees in the physiognomical signs 
of character, and your character corresponds with your organiza- 
tion. 

5. Full. — You are five degrees in the physiognomical signs of 
character, and your character corresponds with your organization. 

4. Average. — You are four degrees in the physiognomical 
signs of character, and your character corresponds with your or- 
ganization. 

3. Moderate. — You are only three degrees ; cultivate good 
thoughts. 

2 and 1. Poor and Very Poor. — You are a breed between a 
gorilla and the Papuans. See Darwin, or Hseckel ; they can de- 
scribe your face and family. To cultivate the features of the face, 
think noble and honest thoughts when alone. Bathe often, and 
put yourself in the way of moral and religious influences ; and 
cultivate the intellectual 4 faculties, so far as you are able, 



ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS OF THE 
PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 



THE SCALE OF DEVELOPMENT RUNS FROM ONE TO SEVEN. 



1. AMATIVENESS. 



Life. — Sexuality ; gender ; the love element ; that which at- 
tracts the opposite sex, and is attracted to it ; admires and awakens 
admiration ; creates and endows offspring ; desires to love, be loved, 
and marry ; the conjugal instinct and talent ; gallantry ; ladyism ; 
masculinity in man, and womanliness in woman ; passion. Adapted 
to nature's male, female, sexual blending, affiliating, and creative 
ordinances. 

Everything in nature is sexed — male or female. And this sex- 
ual institute embodies those means employed by the Author of all 
life for its inception — for the perpetuity and multiplication of all 
forms of life. It creates in each sex admiration and love of the 
other; renders woman winning, persuasive, urbane, affectionate, 
loving, and lovely, and develops all the feminine charms and graces ; 
makes man noble in feeling and bearing ; elevated in aspiration ; 
gallant, tender, and bland in manner ; affectionate toward women ; 
highly susceptible to female charms ; and clothes him with that dig- 
nity, power, and persuasiveness which accompanies the masculine. 
Perverted, it occasions grossness and vulgarity in expression and 
action ; licentiousness in all its forms ; a feverish state of mind. 

7. Very Large. — Are admirably sexed, or well nigh perfect as 



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a male or female ; literally idolize the opposite sex ; love almost to 
insanity ; treat them with the utmost consideration ; cherish for 
them the most exalted feelings of regard and esteem, as if they 
were superior beings ; have the instincts and true spirit and tone of 
the male or female in a pre-eminent degree ; must love and be be- 
loved ; love with an inexpressible tenderness ; are sure to elicit a 
return of love ; are intuitively winning, attractive to, and attracted 
by the other sex, in behavior, in conversation, in all they say and 
do ; almost worship parents, brothers, or sisters, and children of the 
opposite sex. 

6. Large. — Are strongly attracted by the opposite sex ; admire 
and love their beauty and excellencies ; easily win their affectionate 
regards, or kindle their love ; have many warm friends, if not ad- 
mirers, among them ; love young and most intensely, and are pow- 
erfully influenced by the love elements for good or evil, according 
as it is well or ill placed ; with Adhesiveness and Conjugality large, 
will mingle pure friendship with devoted love ; cannot flourish alone, 
but must have a matrimonial mate, with whom to become perfectly 
identified, and whom to invest with almost superhuman perfections, 
by magnifying their charms and overlooking their defects ; in the 
sunshine of whose love be perfectly happy, but proportionally mis- 
erable without it ; with large Ideality and the mental temperament 
added, will experience a fervor and intensity of love, amounting 
almost to ecstacy or romance. 

5. Full. — You are as described in 6, but in a lower degree. 

When you are 4, 3, 2, or 1 degrees, cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Mingle much in the society of the other 
sex ; observe and appreciate their excellencies, and overlook their 
faults ; be as gallant, as gentlemanly or lady-like, as inviting, as 
prepossessing, as lively and entertaining in their society as you know 
how to be, and always on the alert to please them ; say as many 
complimentary and pretty things, and as few disagreeable things, 
as possible ; that is, feel just as courteous, loving, and lovely as 
possible ; luxuriate in the company and conversation of those well 
sexed, and imbibe their inspiriting influence ; be less fastidious, and 
more free and communicative ; establish a warm, cordial intimacy 
and friendship for them, and feast yourself on their masculine or 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 53 

feminine excellencies ; if not married, marry, and cultivate the feel- 
ings, as well as live the life of a right and a hearty sexuality. 

How to Restrain. — Bathe daily, eat sparingly, study, and com- 
mune with nature. 

A.— CONJUGALITY. 

Fidelity or Monogamy ; Union for Life ; First love ; the 
pairing instinct ; attachment to one conjugal partner ; duality 
and exclusiveness of love. Perverted action — a broken heart ; 
jealousy ; envy toward love rivals. Located between Amativeness 
and Adhesiveness, and adapted to parents living with and educating 
all their own children in the same family. Some birds, such as 
doves, eagles, geese, robins, etc., pair, and remain true to their 
connubial attachment ; while hens, dogs, turkeys, sheep, horses, and 
cattle associate promiscuously, which shows this to be a faculty 
distinct from Amativeness and Adhesiveness. 

' ' Two souls with but a single thought, 
Two hearts that beat as one." 

Vert Large. — You are 7 in this grand love force, and would 
long for this sentiment : 

' ' I have another life I long to meet 

Without which life my life is incomplete. 
Oh ! sweeter self, like me art thou astray, 
Trying with all thy heart to find the way 
To mine — straying like mine to find the breast 
On which alone can weary heart find rest." 

Large. — You love one, and one only ; true and loyal. 

Full. — You are happily developed, pure and good. 

Average. — You would not grieve if your love was cremated. 

Moderate. — You believe there is as good fish in the sea as ever 
was caught. 

Small or Very Small. — It is hard for you to be constant to 
one. Cultivate. 



54 ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS 



2.— PHILOPROGENITIVENESS. 



Love of parents, children and pets, horses and dogs. To true 
womanhood, it gives the force to supply lacteal and vital nourish- 
ment. To manhood, the force to retain and husband the product- 
ive energies of his system. Perverted, it spoils children by 
excessive indulgence, pampering and humoring, nursing poodle- 
dogs, etc. 

7. Very Large. — You are in 7 in this force ; this convolution of 
the cerebellum arbor vitce, or tree of life, is perfect in you ; and 
you could never forget your mother. 

6. Are kind, yet insist on being obeyed ; with Self-Esteem and 
Destructiveness moderate, are familiar with, and liable to be ruled 
by, them ; with Firmness only average, fail to manage them with a 
steady hand ; with Cautiousness large, suffer extreme anxiety if 
they are sick or in danger; with large moral and intellectual 
organs, and less Combativeness and Destructiveness, govern them 
more by moral suasion than physical* force — by reason than fear ; 
are neither too strict nor over-indulgent ; with Approbativeness 
large, value their moral character as of the utmost importance ; 
with Veneration and Conscientiousness large, are particularly in- 
terested in their moral improvement ; with large excitability, 
Combativeness, and Destructiveness, and only average Firmness, 
will be, by turns, too indulgent, and over-provoked — will pet them 
one minute, but punish them the next ; with larger Approbative- 
ness and Ideality than intellect, will educate them more for show 
than usefulness — more fashionably than substantially — and dress 
them off in the extreme of fashion : with a large and active brain, 
large moral and intellectual faculties, and Firmness, and only full 
Combativeness, Destructiveness, and Self-Esteem, are well cal- 
culated to teach and manage the young. It renders farmers fond 
of stock, dogs, etc., and women fond of birds, lap-dogs, etc. ; girls 
fond of dolls, and boys of being among horses and cattle ; and 
creates a general interest in young and small animals. 
5. You are described in 6, only in a lower degree. 
4, 3, 2, and 1. — Must cultivate. " Suffer little children to come 
unto me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of God." 



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3.— FRIENDSHIP. 

The Friend. — Sociability, love of society, desire to congregate, 
associate, visit, make and entertain friends, etc. Perverted, it 
forms attachments for the unworthy. 

Very Large. — You are 7 in this faculty ; you never throw off 
an old friend ; you love to kiss and caress your friends. 

6. Large. — Are warm, cordial, and ardent as friends ; readily 
form friendships, and attract friendly regards in return ; must have 
society of some kind; with Benevolence large, are hospitable and 
delight to entertain friends ; with Alimentiveness large, love the 
social banquet, and set the best before friends ; with Approbative- 
ness large, set the world by their commendation, but are terribly 
cut by their rebukes ; with the moral faculties large, seek the soci- 
ety of the moral and elevated, and can enjoy the friendship of no 
others; with the intellectual faculties large, seek the society of 
the intelligent ; with Language large and Secretiveness small, talk 
freely in company ; and with Mirthfulness and Ideality also large, 
are full of fun, and give a lively, jocose turn to conversation, yet 
are elevated and refined ; with Self-esteem large, lead off in com- 
pany, and give tone and character to others ; but with Self-esteem 
small, receive character from friends ; and with Imitation large, are 
liable to copy their faults as well as virtues. 

5. — You are described in 6. 

4, 3, 2, and 1. — Cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Go more into society ; associate freely 
with those around you; open your heart; don't be so exclusive and 
distant ; keep your room less, but go more to parties, and strive to 
be as companionable and familiar as you well can ; nor refuse to 
affiliate with those not exactly to your liking, but like what you can, 
and overlook faults. 

4.— INHABITIYENESS. 

Love of home, patriotism. Perverted — homesickness when away 
from home. The Irish and Scotch are large in this faculty. 
Very Large. — You are 7 in this convolution. 



56 ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS 

6. Highly prize domestic associations; are not satisfied with- 
out a place on which to expend this home instinct ; with 
Parental Love, Adhesiveness, Individuality, and Locality large, 
will love to travel, yet be too fond of home to stay away 
long at a time ; may be a cosmopolite in early life, and see 
much of the world, but will afterward settle down ; with Ap- 
probativeness and Combativeness large, will defend national 
honor, praise own country, government, etc., and defend both 
country and fireside with great spirit ; with Ideality large, 
will beautify home ; with Friendship large, will delight to see 
friends at home rather than abroad ; with Alimentiveness large, 
will enjoy food at home better than elsewhere, etc. 

5. See 6, 4, 3, 2, 1.— Cultivate. 

5.— CONTINUITY. 

Consecutiveness and connectedness of thought and feeling, 
adapted to man's need of doing one thing at a time. Perversion — 
prolixity, repetition, and excessive amplification. 

7. Very Large. — Fix the mind upon objects slowly, yet can- 
not leave them unfinished : have great application. 

6. Large. — Are able and inclined to apply the mind to one, 
and but one, subject for the time being, until it is finished ; are 
disconcerted if attention is directed to a second object, and cannot 
duly consider either ; with Adhesiveness large, pore sadly over the 
loss of friends for months and years ; with the moral faculties 
large, are uniform and consistent in religious exercises and char- 
acter ; with Combativeness and Destructiveness large, retain 
grudges and dislikes for a long time ; with Ideality, Comparison, 
and Language large, amplify .and sustain figures of speech ; with 
the intellectual faculties large, con and pore over one thing, and im- 
part a unity and completeness to intellectual investigations ; become 
thorough in whatever study is commenced, and rather postpone than 
commence, unless sure of completing. 

5. See 6, 4, 3, 2, 1. 

How to Cultivate. — -Dwell on, and pore over, till you com- 
plete the thing in hand ; make thorough work ; and never allow 



OP THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 57 

your thoughts to wander, or attention to be distracted, or indulge 
diversity or variety in anything. 

To Restrain. — Engage in what will compel you to attend to a 
great many different things in a quick succession, and break up 
that prolix, long-winded monotony caused by an excess of this 
faculty. 

E.— VITATTVENESS. 

Tenacity of life ; resistance to death ; love of existence as such ; 
dread of annihilation ; love of life, and clinging tenaciously to it for 
its own sake. 

6.— COMBATIVENESS. 

Force, courage, boldness, energy and defense, etc., adapted to 
man's requisition for overcoming obstacles, contending for rights, 
etc. Perversion — anger, contrariety, fault-finding, contention, ill- 
nature, and fighting. 

7. Very Large. — Show always and everywhere the utmost 
heroism, boldness, and courage. 

6. Large. — Are bold, resolute, fearless, determined, disposed to 
grapple with and remove obstacles, and drive whatever is under- 
taken ; love debate and opposition ; are perfectly cool and intrepid ; 
have great presence of mind in times of danger, and nerve for en- 
counter ; with large Parental Love, take the part of children ; 
with large Inhabitiveness, defend country ; with a powerful muscu- 
lar system, put forth all their strength in lifting, working, and all 
kinds of manual labor ; with great Vitativeness and Destructive- 
ness, defend life with desperation ; with large Acquisitiveness, 
maintain pecuniary rights, and drive money-making plans ; with 
large Approbativeness, resent insult, and large Adhesiveness 
added, defend the character of friends ; with full or large Self- 
esteem, defend personal interest, take their own part with spirit, 
and repel all aggressions ; with Self-esteem small, and Benevolence 
and Friendship large, defend the interest of friends more than of 
self ; with large Conscientiousness, prosecute the right and oppose 

5 



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the wrong most spiritedly ; with large intellectual organs, impart 
vigor, power, and impressiveness to thoughts, expressions, etc. 

5. 4, 3, 2, 1. — Cultivate if you are only 5. 

7 .— EXECUTIVENESS. 

Destroying whatever is prejudicial to happiness, severity, stern- 
ness, and enduring, etc. Perverted — revenge, malice, and murder. 
Very Large. — You are 7 ; restrain this force. 

6. Large. — Impart that determination, energy, and force which 
removes or destroys whatever impedes progress ; with Firmness 
large, have that iron will which endures till the very last, in spite 
of everything, and will carry points anyhow ; with large Combat- 
iveness, impart a harsh, rough mode to expression and action, and 
a severity, if not fierceness, to all encounters. 

5. Full. — You can be forcible, determined, and indignant when 
aroused, but are not disposed to be vindictive, cruel, or unforgiving. 

4, 3, 2, and 1. 

8 .— ALIMENTIVENESS . 

Appetite, the faculty of taste, relish, and desire for food. Per- 
verted — gluttony, drunkenness, and dyspepsia. 

7. Very Large. — You are 7 ; do not live to eat, but eat to live. 
You had better steal a horse, so that the authorities may look after 
your diet. Restrain. 

6, 5, 3, 2, 1. 

F. BIBATIVENESS OR AQUATIVENESS. 

(Located in front of Alimentiveness. ) 

Fondness for liquids, desire to drink, love of water, washing, 
bathing, swimming, sailing, etc. Adapted to the existence and 
utility of water. Perversion — drinking in excessive quantities, 
drunkenness, and unquenchable thirst. 



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9 .—ACQUISITIVENESS . 

Economy, love of trading, amassing property. Perverted — wor- 
ships money, miserable and penurious. 

7. Very Large. — You are 7 degrees in this faculty ; are too 
eager after wealth, avaricious and mean. Restrain. 

6. Large. — Save for future use what is not wanted for present ; 
allow nothing to go waste ; turn everything to a good account ; buy 
closely, and make the most of everything ; are industrious, econom- 
ical, and vigorously employ all means to accumulate property, and 
desire to own and possess much ; with large social organs, industri- 
ously acquire property for domestic purposes, yet are saving in the 
family; with very large Adhesiveness and Benevolence, are indus- 
trious in acquiring property, yet spend it too freely upon friends ; 
with large hope added, are too apt to indorse for them ; with small 
Secretiveness, and activity greater than power, are liable to over- 
do, and take on too much work in order to save, so much as often 
to incur sickness, and thus lose more than gain. 

5,4, 3, 2,1.— Cultivate. 

10.— SECRETIVENESS. 

Self-government, ability to restrain feelings, policy, manage- 
ment, reserve, evasion, discretion, cunning, adapted to man's re- 
quisition for controlling his animal nature. Perverted, it causes 
duplicity, double-dealing, lying, deception, and all kinds of false 
pretensions. 

If 7, restrain; if 4, cultivate. 

11.— CAUTIOUSNESS. 

The Sentinel. — Carefulness ; prudence ; solicitude ; anxiety ; 
watchfulness; apprehension; security; protection; provision against 
want and danger ; foreseeing and avoiding prospective evils ; the 
watchman ; discretion ; care ; vigilance. 

Adapted to ward off surrounding dangers, and make those pro- 



60 ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS 

visions necessary for future happiness. Perversion — irresolution, 
timidity, procrastination, indecision, fright, panic. 

7. Very Large. — Are over-anxious ; always on the lookout ; wor- 
ried about trifles ; afraid of shadows ; forever getting ready, be- 
cause so many provisions to make ; are careful in business ; often 
revise decisions, because afraid to trust the issue. 

6. Large. — Are always on the lookout ; take ample time to 
get ready ; provide against prospective dangers ; make everything 
safe ; guard against losses and evils ; incur no risks ; sure bind 
that they may sure find ; with large Approbativeness, are doubly 
cautious as to character ; with large Approbativeness and small 
Acquisitiveness, are extra careful of character, but not of money ; 
with large Acquisitiveness and small Approbativeness, take special 
care of all money matters, but not of reputation ; with large Ad- 
hesiveness and Benevolence, experience the greatest solicitude for 
the welfare of friends ; with large Conscientiousness, are careful to 
do nothing wrong ; with large Causality, lay safe plans, and are 
judicious ; with large Combativeness and Hope, combine judgment 
with energy and enterprise. 

5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. — Cultivate. 

12.— APPROBATIVENESS. 

Ambition, aristocracy, pride, and love of honor. Perverted — 
vanity, aristocracy, and pomposity. 

7. Very Large. — You are 7 in vanity ; study geology. 

6. Large. — Love commendation, and are cut by censure ; are 
keenly alive to the smiles and frowns of public opinion ; mind what 
people say ; are ostentatious, if not vain and ambitious ; love 
praise, and are inordinately mortified by censure ; with moderate 
Self-esteem and Firmness, cannot breast public opinion, but are 
over-fond of popularity ; with only average Conscientiousness, seek 
popularity without regard to merit. 

5. — Have a fine degree of ambition. 
4, 3, 2, and 1. — Cultivate. 

If 6 or 7 degrees, restrain. Remember that you are infinitely 
too sensitive to reproof ; that your feelings are often hurt when 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 61 

there is no occasion ; that you often feel neglected or reproved 
without cause ; that evil-speaking breaks no bones, and will ulti- 
mately thwart itself; and leave such paper rubbish alone as the 
" Blackmail Letter " and " Jolly Liar " — articles written by such 
skunks would only annoy you. 

13.— SELF-FORCE OR SELF-ESTEEM. 

Nobleness, love of liberty, self-reliance and dignity, the faculty 
that makes you walk straight. Perverted — tyranny, egotism, and 
haughtiness. 

7. Very Large. — You are 7 degrees in this force. With Con- 
scientiousness, Benevolence, and Comparison very large, you are 
truly noble. Cultivate humility. See " Uriah Heep." 

6. Large. — Is high-minded, independent, self-confident, digni- 
fied, his own master ; aspires to be and do something worthy of 
himself; assumes responsibilities ; does few little things. 

5. Full. — Has much self-respect ; pride of character ; inde- 
pendence. 

4, 3, 2, and 1. — Must cultivate " London Assurance," Chicago 
Brass, or Aberdeen Cheek. 

14.— FIRMNESS. 

Will. — Stability ; decision ; perseverance ; pertinacity ; fixed- 
ness of purpose. Adapted to man's requisition for holding out to 
the end. Perversion — obstinacy ; willfulness ; mulishness ; stub- 
bornness ; unwillingness to change even when reason requires. 

7. Very Large. — Are well-nigh obstinate, stubborn, and with 
large Combativeness and Self-esteem, as unchangeable as the laws 
of the Medes and Persians. 

6. Large. — Are set and willful ; stick to and carry out what is 
commenced ; hold on long and hard ; continue to the end, and may 
be fully relied upon ; with full Self-esteem and large Combativeness, 
cannot be driven, but the more determined the more driven ; with 
large Combativeness and Destructiveness, add perseverance to sta- 
bility, and not only hold on, but drive forward determinedly through 



62 ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS 

difficulties ; with large hope, undertake much, and carry all out ; 
with large social organs, Ideality and Agreeableness, will be firm in 
purpose but gentle in manner. 

5. Full. — You have perseverance enough for ordinary occasions, 
but too little for great enterprises ; you are neither fickle nor stub- 
born. 

Cultivate 4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees, if you are so low. 

How to Cultivate. — Have more mind of your own ; make up 
your mind wisely, and then stand to your purpose ; be sure you 
are right, then hold on ; surmount difficulties, instead of turning 
aside to avoid them ; resist the persuasions of others ; begin noth- 
ing not worthy of finishing, and finish all you begin : 265. 

To Restrain. — Remember that you are too obstinate. 

15.— CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. 

Truth. — Moral principle ; integrity ; perception and love of 
right ; innate sense of accountability and obligation ; love of 
justice and truth ; regard for duty ; desire for moral purity and 
excellence ; disposition to fulfill promises, agreements, etc. ; that 
internal monitor which approves the right and condemns the 
wrong ; sense of guilt ; penitence ; contrition ; desire to re- 
form. Adapted to the rightness of right and the wrongness of 
wrong, and to the moral nature and constitution of things. Per- 
verted, it makes one do wrong from conscientious scruples, and 
torments with undue self-condemnation. 

7. Very Large. — Place moral excellence at the head of all 
excellence ; make duty everything ; are governed by the highest 
order of moral principle ; would on no account knowingly do 
wrong ; are scrupulously exact in all matters of right ; perfectly 
honest in motive ; always condemning self and repenting, and very 
forgiving to those who evince penitence. 

6. Large. — Love the right as right, and hate the wrong because 
wrong ; are honest, faithful, upright in motive ; mean well ; con- 
sult duty before expediency ; feel guilty when conscious of having 
done wrong ; ask forgiveness for the past, and try to do better in 
future ; with strong propensities, will sometimes do wrong, but be 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 63 

exceedingly sorry therefor ; and, with a wrong education added, 
are liable to do wrong, thinking it right, because these propensities 
warp conscience, yet mean well ; with large Cautiousness, are 
solicitous to know what is right, and careful to do it ; with weaker 
Cautiousness, sometimes do wrong carelessly or indifferently, yet 
afterward repent it ; with large Cautiousness and Destructiveness, 
are severe on wrong-doers, and unrelenting until they evince 
penitence, but then cordially forgive ; with large Approbativeness, 
keep the moral character pure and spotless, value others on their 
morals more than wealth, birth, etc., and make the word the bond ; 
with large Benevolence, Combativeness, and Destructiveness, feel 
great indignation and severity against oppressors, and those who 
cause others to suffer by wronging them ; with large Ideality, 
have strong aspirations after moral purity and excellence ; with 
large reasoning organs, take great pleasure, and show much talent 
in reasoning upon and investigating moral subjects. With Venera- 
tion full and Benevolence large or very large, cannot well help 
being a thorough-going reformer. You have indeed the sign 
Libra in your horoscope. 

5. Fail to allow right its due weight ; and should never allow 
conscience to be in any way weakened, but cultivate it assiduously. 

4, 3, 2, and 1. You must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Always ask yourself what is right and 
wrong, and adhere closely to the former, and studiously avoid the 
latter ; make everything a matter of principle ; do just as nearly 
right as you know how in everything, and never allow conscience 
to be borne down by any of the other faculties, but keep it 
supreme ; maintain the right everywhere and for everybody ; culti- 
vate a high sense of duty and obligation, and try to reform every 
error ; in short, " let justice be done, though the heavens fall." 

1G.— HOPE. 

Saviour. — Future happiness, dream-land, flowery castles in the 
air, in the sweet by-and-by, the light of the soul. Perverted with 
late suppers or diseased liver, have bad dreams. (See the degree 
or state of your liver.) 



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7. Vert Large. — Have unbounded expectations ; build a 
world of castles in the air ; live in the future ; enjoy things in an- 
ticipation more than possession. 

6. Large. — Expects, attempts, and promises a great deal ; is 
generally sanguine, cheerful, etc. ; rises above present troubles ; 
though disappointed, hopes on still ; views the brightest side of pros- 
pects. 

If you are only 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1 degrees, cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Remember this faculty is not a false or- 
gan, but every independent thought that you have been inspired 
with, you will yet realize it according to natural law ; therefore, look 
altogether on the bright side, the dark none ; calculate all the 
chances for, none against you ; mingle in young and lively society ; 
banish care, and cultivate juvenility ; cheer up ; venture more in 
business ; cultivate trust in the future, and " look aloft ! " 



We all have a fair little world of our own — 
A sacred retreat that we dwell in alone ; 
Not the dearest of friends or the nearest of kin 
Are ever invited to enter therein. 

If fate treats us harshly, or Fortune 's unkind, 
If clouds of despondency darken the mind, 
Or cares vex the spirit, we turn for a time 
To the soothing delight of this ideal clime. 

The child growing tired of playmates and toys, 
The youth feeling sated with pleasure's wild joys, 
The world-weary man, sick of turmoil and strife — 
All find in this realm new hope and new life. 

No "bleak winds of winter invade this retreat ; 
No frost chills its flowers, ever fadeless and sweet ; 
For its skies bend in shadowless beauty above, 
And its airs are as soft as the whispers of love. 

No wild disappointment, no sin and no care, 
Ever come to us here, bringing tears and despair ; 
But ambitions most lofty and wishes most dear 
Seem always attained in this magical sphere. 

Oh, beautiful dreamland, sweet realm of the soul, 
Lying safe and secure beyond sorrow's control ! 
Art thou foretaste and type of that shadowless shore 
We all hope to reach when life's sad voyage is o'er? 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 65 



17.— SPIRITUALITY. 

Faith. — Wonder ; intuition ; prescience ; the " light within " ; 
trust in Providence ; prophetic guidance ; perception and feeling 
of the spiritual ; interior perception of truth, what is best, what is 
about to transpire, etc. ; that which foresees and warns. 

Adapted to man's prophetic gift and a future life. Perversion — 
superstition ; witchcraft ; and with Cautiousness large, fear of 
ghosts. 

7. Very Large. — Are led and governed bj a species of pro- 
phetic guiding ; feel by intuition what is right and best ; are fore- 
warned of danger, and led by spiritual monitions into the right 
way ; feel internally what is true and false, right and wrong, best 
and not best. 

Large. — You are in this fine convolution ; you are a natural 
clairvoyant and psychometrist ; be very careful with this soul-gift, 
or it may be dulled for a time. 0, remember : 

" And ever near us, though unseen, 
The dear, immortal spirits tread ; 
For all the boundless universe 
Is Hfe — there is no dead." — Bulwer Lytton. 

5. A fine degree of Faith ; if only 4, 3, 2, or 1 degrees, culti- 
vate. 

How to Cultivate. — Muse and meditate on divine things — the 
Deity, a future existence, the state of man after death, immortal- 
ity, and that class of subjects ; and, especially, follow your inner- 
most impressions or presentiments in everything, as well as open 
your mind to the intuitive reception of truth : 

1 ' Know, 
Without or star, or angel, for their guide, 
Who worships God shall find him." — Young's Night Thoughts. 

18.— VENERATION. 

Devotion. — Adoration of a Supreme Being ; reverence for reli- 
gion and things sacred ; disposition to pray, worship, and observe 



66 ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS 

religious rites. Adapted to the existence of a God, and the pleas- 
ures and benefits experienced by man in worshiping him. Per- 
verted, it produces idolatry, superstitious reverence for authority, 
bigotry, religious intolerance, etc. 

7. Very Large. — Experience the highest degree of divine love 
and worship ; place God as supreme upon the throne of the soul. 

6. Large. — Experience an awe of God and of things sacred ; 
love to adore the Supreme Being, especially in his works ; feel 
true devotion, fervent piety, and love of divine things ; take great 
delight in religious exercises ; have much respect for superiority ; 
regard God as the center of hopes, fears, and aspirations ; with 
large Hope and Spirituality, worship him as a Spirit, and hope to 
be with and like him ; with large Ideality, contemplate his works 
with rapture and ecstasy ; with large Sublimity, adore him as in- 
finite in everything ; with large reasoning organs, have clear, and, 
if the faculties are evenly developed, unperverted, correct ideas of 
the divine character and government, and delight to reason thereon ; 
with large Parental Love, adore him as a Friend and Father ; and 
with large Benevolence, for his infinite goodness, etc. ; with large 
Causality added, as securing the happiness of sentient beings by a 
wise institution of law, and as the great First Cause of all things ; 
with large and perverted Cautiousness, mingle fear and dread with 
worship ; with large Constructiveness and Causality, admire the 
system evinced in his architectural plans, contrivances, etc. 

5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Study and admire the divine in nature, 
animate and inanimate, heaven and earth, man and things, present 
and future ; cultivate admiration and adoration of the divine char- 
acter and government of this stupendous order of things, of the 
beauties and perfections of nature, as well as a regard for religion 
and things sacred ; but contemplate the Divine mercy and good- 
ness rather than austerity, and salvation than condemnation. 

19.— BENEVOLENCE. 

The Christ Love, or the Good Samaritan. — Goodness ; phi- 
Ian throphy; generosity; sympathy; kindness; humanity ; desire 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 67 

to make others happy; a self-sacrificing disposition ; the accommo- 
dating, neighborly spirit. 

Adapted to man's capability of making his fellow-men happy. 

Perversion — misplaced sympathies and philanthrophy. 

7. Very Large. — Are deeply and thoroughly imbued with a 
benevolent spirit, and do good spontaneously. 

6. Large. — Delight to do good ; make personal sacrifices to 
render others happy ; cannot witness pain or distress, and do what 
can well be done to relieve them ; manifest a perpetual flow of dis- 
interested goodness ; with large Adhesiveness, Ideality, and Appro- 
bativeness, and only average propensities and Self-esteem, are re- 
markable for practical goodness ; live more for others than self ; 
with large domestic organs, make great sacrifices for family ; with 
large reflectives, are perpetually reasoning on the evils of society, 
the way to obviate them, and to render mankind happy ; with large 
Adhesiveness, are hospitable ; with moderate Destructiveness, can- 
not witness pain or death, and revolt at capital punishment ; with 
moderate Acquisitiveness, give freely to the needy, and never exact 
dues from the poor ; with large Acquisitiveness, help others to 
help themselves rather than give money ; with large Combative- 
ness, Destructiveness, Self-esteem, and Firmness, at times evince 
harshness, yet are generally kind. 

5. Full. — Have a fair share of sympathetic feeling, and some, 
though not great, willingness to sacrifice for others. 

4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Be more generous and less selfish ; more 
kind to others, the sick included ; interest yourself in their wants 
and woes, as well as their relief; and cultivate general philanthropy 
and practical goodness in sentiment and conduct ; indulge benevo- 
lence in all the little affairs of life, in every look and action, and 
season your whole conduct and character with this sentiment. 

20.— CONSTRUCTIVENESS. 

Mechanical Ingenuity. — The tool-using talent; sleight of 
hand in constructing things. Adapted to man's need of things 
made, such as houses, clothes, and manufactured articles of all 



68 ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS 

kinds. Perverted, it wastes time and money on perpetual motion, 
and other like futile inventions. 

7. Very Large. — Show extraordinary mechanical ingenuity, and 
a perfect passion for making everything; with large Imitation, 
Form, Size and Locality, have first-rate talents as an artist, and 
for drawing, engraving, etc. 

6. Large. — Shows mechanical skill and dexterity in whatever 
is done with the hands ; with large Causality and perceptives, are 
inventive, and with large Imitation added, can make after a pat- 
tern, and both copy the improvements of others and supply defects 
by original inventions, as well as improve on the mechanical con- 
trivances of others ; with the mental temperament, and large intel- 
lectual organs and Ideality, employ ingenuity in constructing 
sentences and arranging words, and forming essays, sentiments, 
books, etc. 

5. Full. — Have fair mechanical ingenuity, yet no great natural 
talent or desire to make things ; with practice, will do well ; with- 
out it, little. 

4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Try your hand in using tools and in turn- 
ing off work of any and every kind ; if in any writing business, try to 
write well and cut flourishes ; if a mechanic, do with skill and dexter- 
ity what you undertake, etc.; observe and study machinery and in- 
ventions, and call out this faculty in its various phases by work. 

21.— IDEALITY. 

Perfection the Poet. — Poetry, flowers, and admiration of the 
beautiful and perfect ; good taste and refinement ; purity of feel- 
ing ; sense of propriety, elegance, and gentility ; polish and imagin- 
ation. Adapted to the beautiful in nature and art. Perverted, it 
gives fastidiousness and extra niceness. 

7. Very Large. — Have the highest order of taste and refine- 
ment ; love the exquisite and perfect beyond expression, and are 
correspondingly dissatisfied with the imperfect, especially in them- 
selves ; admire beauty in bird and insect, flower and fruit, animal 
and man, the physical and mental ; are perfectly enraptured with 



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the impassioned, oratorical, and poetical in speech and action, in 
nature and art, and live much in an ideal world ; have a most glow- 
ing and vivid imagination, and give a delicate finish and touch of 
perfection to every act and word. 

6. Large. — Appreciate and enjoy beauty and perfection wher- 
ever found, especially in nature ; give grace, purity, and propriety 
to expression and conduct, gracefulness and polish to manners, and 
general good taste to all said and done ; are pure-minded ; enjoy 
the ideal of poetry and romance ; desire to perfect character and 
obviate blemishes, and with Conscientiousness large, moral imper- 
fections ; with large social organs, evince a nice sense of propriety 
in friendly intercourse ; eat in a becoming and genteel manner ; 
with large moral organs, appreciate perfection of character, or 
moral beauties and excellencies most; with large reflectives, add a 
high order of sense and strength of mind to beauty and perfection 
of character ; with large perceptives, are gifted with a talent for 
the study of nature, etc. 

5. Full. — You are not wanting in taste, refinement, or love of 
the beautiful ; enjoy poetry and art ; appreciate elegance and 
polished manners. 

4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — First, avoid all disgusting habits— swear- 
ing, chewing and drinking, low conversation, vulgar expressions 
and associates ; and dress and appear in good taste, and cultivate 
personal neatness, good behavior, refinement and style in manners, 
purity in feeling, the poetical and sentimental, an elegant and clas- 
sical style of conversation, expression, and writing, and love of the 
fine arts and beautiful forms ; of the beauties of nature, of sunrise, 
sunset, mountain, lawn, river, scenery, beautiful birds, fruits, 
flowers, mechanical fabrics and productions — in short, the beautiful 
and perfect in nature in general, and yourself in particular. 

B.— SUBLIMITY. 

Nature. — Perception and appreciation of the vast, illimitable, 
endless, omnipotent, and infinite. Adapted to that infinitude which 
characterizes every department of nature. Perverted, it leads to 



70 ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS 

bombast, and a wrong application of extravagant words and ideas. 
7. Very Large. — Have a literal passion for the wild, romantic, 
boundless, endless, infinite, eternal, and stupendous, and are like 
large, only more so. 

6. Large. — Appreciate and admire the grand, sublime, vast, 
and magnificent in nature and art ; admire and enjoy exceedingly 
mountain scenery, thunder, lightning, tempests, vast prospects, and 
all that is awful and magnificent ; also the foaming, dashing cata- 
ract, towering mountains, peals of thunder, flashes of lightning, 
commotion of the elements, the starry canopy of heaven, etc. 
With the moral faculties 6, and the organic quality 6, degrees are 
truly noble. 

5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Mount the lofty summit to contemplate 
the outstretched landscape ; admire the grand and stupendous in 
towering mountain, rolling cloud, rushing wind and storm, loud 
thunder, majestic river, raging sea, roaring cataract, burning vol- 
cano, and the boundless, endless, infinite and eternal in nature and 
her Author. 

22.— IMITATION. 

The Mimic. — Conformity ; ability and desire to copy, take pat- 
tern, imitate, do and become like, mock, etc. 

Adapted to man's requisition for doing, talking, acting, etc., like 
others. Perverted, it copies even faults. 

7. Very Large. — Can mimic, act out, and pattern after almost 
anything. 

6. Large. — Have a great propensity and ability to copy and 
take pattern from others, and do what is seen done ; describe and 
act out well ; with large Language, gesticulate much ; with large 
perceptives, require to be shown but once ; with large Construct- 
iveness, easily learn to use tools, and to make things as others 
make them, and, with small Continuity added, are a jack-at-all- 
trades, but thorough in none ; begin many things, but fail to finish ; 
with large Causality, perceptives, and an active temperament added, 
may make inventions or improvements, but never dwell on one till 
it completes it, or are always adding to them ; with large Appro- 



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bativeness, copy after renowned men ; with large Adhesiveness, 
take pattern from friends ; with large Language, imitate the style 
and mode of expression of others ; with large Mirthfulness and full 
Secretiveness, create laughter by taking off the oddities of people ; 
with large Form, Size, and Constructiveness, copy shape and pro- 
portions ; with large Color, imitate colors ; and thus of all the other 
faculties. 

5. Full. — With effort, copies some, but not well ; cannot mimic. 
4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Study and practice copying from others, 
in manners, expressions, sentiments, ideas, opinions, everything ; 
and try your hand at drawing, and in every species of copying and 
imitation, as well as conforming to those around you ; that is, try 
to become what they are, and do what and as they do. 

23.— MIBTHFULNESS. 

The Laugher. — Wit ; facetiousness ; ridicule ; love of fun ; dis- 
position and ability to joke and laugh at what is ill-timed, improp- 
er, or unbecoming ; laughter ; intuitive perception of the ridicu- 
lous ; pleasantness ; facetiousness. 

Adapted to the absurd, inconsistent, and laughable. Perverted, 
it makes fun on solemn occasions, and where there is nothing 
ridiculous at which to laugh. 

7. Very Large. — You are 7 in wit ; are quick and apt at 
turning everything into ridicule ; throw off constant sallies of wit ; 
are too facetious, jocose, etc. 

6. Large. — Enjoy a hearty laugh at the absurdities of others ex- 
ceedingly, and delight to make fun out of everything not exactly 
proper or in good taste, and are always ready to give as good joke 
as get ; with large Amativeness, love to joke with and about the 
other sex ; with large Ideality, show taste and propriety in witti- 
cisms, but with this faculty average or less, are often gross, and 
with large Amativeness added, vulgar in jokes ; with large Com- 
bativeness and Destructiveness, love to tease, and are sarcastic, 
and make many enemies ; and with large Comparison added, com- 
pare those disliked to something mean, disgusting, and ridiculous. 



72 ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS 

5. Full. — Has much mirthful feeling ; makes and relishes 
jokes well. 

4, 3, 2, and 1. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Rid yourself of the idea that it is sinful 
or undignified to laugh ; try to perceive the witty and facetious 
aspects of subjects and things ; cultivate the acquaintance of mirth- 
ful people, and read witty books, and try to imbibe their spirit. 

24.— INDIVIDUALITY. 

The Observer. — Cognizance of individual objects ; desire to 
see and examine ; minuteness ; scrutiny ; looking. 

Adapted to individual existence, or the thingness of things. It 
is the door through which most forms of knowledge enter the 
mind. Perverted, it stares and gazes impudently. 

7. Very Large. — Have an insatiable desire to see and know 
all about everything, together with extraordinary powers of obser- 
vation ; cannot rest satisfied till all is known ; individualize every- 
thing, and are very minute and particular in observing all things. 

6. Large. — Have a great desire to see, know, examine, ex- 
perience, etc. ; are a great and practical observer of men and 
things; see whatever is transpiring around, what should be done, 
etc. ; are quick of perception, knowing, and with large Acquisi- 
tiveness, quick to perceive whatever appertains to property ; with 
large Parental Love, whatever concerns children ; with large 
Alimentiveness, whatever belongs to the flavor or qualities of food, 
and know what things are good by looking at them ; with large 
Approbativeness or Self-esteem, see quickly whatever appertains 
to individual character, and whether it is favorable or unfavorable ; 
with large Conscientiousness, perceive readily the moral, or right 
and wrong of things ; with large Veneration, " see God in clouds, 
and hear him in the winds " ; with large Ideality, are quick to 
perceive beauty, perfection, and deformity ; with large Form, 
notice the countenances and looks of all met ; with small Color, 
fail to observe tints, hues, and shades ; with large Order and 
moderate Ideality, perceive disarrangement at once, yet fail to 
notice the want of taste or niceness. These and kindred com- 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 73 

binations show why some persons are very quick to notice some 
things, but slow to observe others. 

4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Notice whatever comes within the range 
of your vision ; observe attentively all the little things done and 
said by everybody, all their minor manifestations of character — 
in short, keep a sharp look-out. 

25.— FORM. 

The Draftsman. — Configuration ; cognizance and memory of 
forms, shapes, faces, countenances, and looks ; perception of fam- 
ily likenesses, resemblances, etc. 

Adapted to shape. Perverted — see imaginary shapes of per- 
sons, things, etc., as in delirium tremens. 

7. Very Large. — Possess this capability to an extraordinary 
degree. 

6. Large. — Notice, and for a long time remember, the faces, 
countenances, forms, looks, etc., of persons, beasts, and things 
once seen ; know by sight many whose names are not remembered ; 
with Individuality large, both observe and recollect persons and 
things, but with Individuality moderate, fail to notice them; with 
large Ideality, will recollect beautiful shapes ; with large Locality 
and Sublimity, beautiful and magnificent scenery, etc. 

5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Scan the shape of everything you would 
remember ; study botany, conchology, phrenology, and especially 
those studies which involve configuration ; when talking to persons, 
scan eyes, nose, mouth, chin, forehead, looks, expression of coun- 
tenance, especially of eye, as if you were determined ever after- 
ward to remember them — looking at them critically, as a police de- 
tective looks at a rogue, as if saying to himself, " I'll know you, 
my man, next time I see you." 



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26,— SIZE. 



The Architect. — Measurement by eye ; cognizance and mem- 
ory of magnitude, quantity, bulk, distance, proportion, weight by 
size, etc. 

Adapted to the absolute and relative magnitude of things. 
Perverted, it is pained by disproportion and architectural in- 
accuracies. 

7. Very Large. — Are endowed with an extraordinarily ac- 
curate architectural eye. 

6. Large. — Have an excellent eye for measuring angles, pro- 
portions, and departures therefrom, and with large Constructive- 
ness, a good mechanical eye, and judge correctly of quantity in 
general ; love harmony of proportion, and are pained by dispropor- 
tion ; necessary to artisans, mechanics, etc. 

5. Full. — Possess a good share of this eye-measuring power. 

4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Should cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Pass judgment on whatever involves how 
much, how heavy, how far, the center, the amount, architectural ac- 
curacy, guessing the weight, the quantity of groceries, of every- 
thing by eye, judging how much grain to the acre, and everything 
involving the exercise of this faculty. 

27.— WEIGHT. 

(For illustration of weight, 7 degrees, see M. Blondin. ) 

Intuitive perception and application of the laws of gravity, mo- 
tion, etc. Adapted to man's requisition for keeping his balance. 
Perverted, it runs imminent risk of falling by venturing too far. 

7. Very Large. — Have control over the muscular system, hence 
can climb or walk anywhere with safety. 

6. Large. — Can walk on a high or narrow place, hold a steady 
hand, throw a stone or ball, and shoot straight, ride a fractious 
horse, etc., very well. 

5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Should cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Skate, slide down hill, practice gymnastic 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 75 

feats, balance a long pole on your hand, walk a fence, climb, ride 
on horseback, go to sea, practice gunnery, archery, throwing stones, 
pitching quoits — anything to call this faculty into exercise. 

28.— COLOR. 

The Painter. — Perception, recollection, and application of" 
colors, and delight in them. 

Adapted to that infinite variety of coloring interspersed through- 
out nature. Perverted — are over-particular to have colors just 
right. 

7. Very Large. — Have a natural taste and talent, as well as 
a perfect passion, for whatever appertains to colors ; can carry 
colors perfectly in the eye, and match them from memory ; take 
the utmost delight in viewing harmonious colors. For combinations, 
see Large. 

6. Large. — Can discern and match colors by the eye with accu- 
racy ; with Comparison large, can compare them closely, and de- 
tect similarities and differences ; with Constructiveness, Form, Size, 
and Imitation large or very large, can excel in painting ; but with 
Form and Size only average, can paint better than draw ; with 
Ideality large, are exceedingly delighted with fine paintings, and 
disgusted with imperfect coloring ; with large Form and Size, man- 
age the perspective and lights and shades of painting admirably. 

5. Full. — Possess a good share of coloring ability and talent, 
provided it has been cultivated ; take much pleasure in beautiful 
flowers, variegated landscapes, beautifully colored fruits, etc. 

4, 3, 2, and 1. — Should cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Observe color in general, and its shadings 
in particular ; try to appreciate their beauties ; relish, revel in their 
richness, as seen in flower, bird, fruit, lawn, twilight, everywhere, 
and cultivate an appreciation of fine paintings. 

29.— ORDER. 

Method, system, arrangement. Adapted to heaven's first law. 
Perverted, it overworks, annoys others to keep things in order, 
and is tormented by disarrangement. 



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7. Very Large. — Are perfectly systematic, and are very par- 
ticular about order. 

6. Large. — Have a place for things and things in their places ; 
can find, even in the dark, what they alone use ; are systematic ; an- 
noyed by disorder ; with large Language, place every word exactly 
right in the sentence ; with large Approbativeness, are inclined to 
conform to established usages ; with large Size, must have every- 
thing in rows, at proper distances, straight, etc. ; and with large 
Ideality, must have everything neat and nice, as well as methodical, 
etc. 

5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

To Cultivate. — Methodize and arrange everything ; be regular 
in all your habits ; cultivate system in business ; have a place for 
everything, and keep everything in place, so that you could find it 
in the dark — in short, exercise order. 

30.— CALCULATION. 

The Mental Arithmetician. — Numerical computation ; ability 
to reckon figures in the head ; cognizance and memory of numbers ; 
mental arithmetic. Adapted to numerical relations. 

7. Very Large. — Possess this calculation capability in a most 
extraordinary degree ; can add several columns at once very rap- 
idly and correctly, and multiply and divide with the same intuitive 
powers ; love mental arithmetic exceedingly, and with large reflec- 
tions are a natural mathematician. 

Zerah Colburn, at the age of nine years, without education, as- 
tonished the world by his great calculating talent. 

George Combe, though he studied mathematics seven years, 
never could master the multiplication table. 

6. Large. — Can add, subtract, divide, etc., in the head, with 
facility and correctness ; become a rapid, correct accountant ; de- 
lights and excels in arithmetic. 

5. Full. — Aided by rules and practice, may excel in reckoning 
figures, and do well in his head, but not without them. 
4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Should cultivate. 
How to Cultivate. — Add, subtract, divide, multiply, count, 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 77 

and reckon figures, in the head as far as possible, and learn and 
practice arithmetic. 

31.— LOCALITY. 

The Pilot. — Cognizance and recollection of places, roads, 
scenery, position, etc. ; desire to see places ; ability to find them ; 
the geographical faculty ; keeping points of the compass. 

Adapted to nature's arrangement of space and place. Per- 
verted, it creates a cosmopolitan disposition, and would spend 
everything in traveling. 

7. Very Large. — Always keep a correct idea of positions, rela- 
tive and absolute, in the deep forests and winding streets ; can- 
not be lost ; is perfectly enamored of traveling — has a passion 
for it. 

6. Large. — Remember the whereabouts of whatever they see ; 
can carry the points of the compass easily in the head, and are 
lost with difficulty, either in the city, woods, or country ; desire to 
see places, and never* forget them; study geography and astron- 
omy with ease, and rarely forget where things are seen ; with Con- 
structiveness, remember the arrangement of the various parts of a 
machine ; with Individuality, Eventuality, and Human Nature, 
love to see men and things as well as places, and hence have a 
passion for traveling. 

5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Notice, as you go, turns in the road, 
land-marks, and objects by the way, geography, and the points of the 
compass, when you see things, and charge your memory where on 
a page certain ideas or accounts stand recorded, and position in 
general ; and study geography by maps and traveling, the loca- 
tion of anatomical and phrenological organs, and position or place 
in general. 

32.— EVENTUALITY. 

The Editor. — Memory of facts ; recollection of circumstances, 
news, occurrences, and historical, scientific, and passing events — 
what has been said, seen, heard, and once known. 



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Adapted to action, and those changes constantly occurring 
around and within us. 

7. Very Large. — Are smart, bright, and knowing in the ex- 
treme ; possess a wonderfully retentive memory of everything like 
facts and incidents. 

6. Large. — Have a clear and retentive memory of historical 
facts, general knowledge, what has been seen, heard, read, done, 
etc., even in detail ; considering advantages, are well informed and 
knowing ; desire to witness and institute experiments ; find out 
what is and has been, and learn anecdotes, particulars, and items 
of information, and readily recall to mind what has once entered 
it ; have a good, general, matter-of-fact memory, and pick up facts 
readily ; with Calculation and Acquisitiveness, remember business 
matters, bargains, etc. ; with large Social Feelings, recall friends 
to mind, and what they have said and done ; and with large Lo- 
cality, associate facts with the place where they transpired, and 
are particularly fond of reading, lectures, general news, etc., and 
can become a good scholar. 

5. Full. — Have a good general memory of matters and things. 

4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Charge your mind with whatever trans- 
pires ; remember what you read, see, hear, and often recall and 
re-impress it, so that you can swear definitely in a court of justice ; 
also, impress on your mind what you intend to do and say at given 
times ; read history, and study mythology, with a view of weaving 
such knowledge into the e very-day affairs of life ; tell anecdotes, 
recount incidents in your own life, putting in all the little particu- 
lars ; write down what you would remember — yet only to impress 
it — but trust to memory rather than to manuscript. 

MEMORY OF NAMES. 

This capacity arises from a combination of organs, and is not 
a distinct faculty. Memory of persons, places, and things are all 
referrable to the same causes or combination of faculties. 

To Cultivate. — Write and spell over each name upon hearing 
it ; when retiring to rest, think over all the names of persons 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 79 

spoken to during the day ; repeat each name many times upon 
hearing it. And by virtue of the will, say, " Duncan McTavish," 
" Wilkins Micawber," and Van Slyke O'Dogarty, I will remember 
your name. 

33.— TIME. 

Chronometer op the Soul. — Cognizance and recollection ot 
succession, the lapse of time, dates, how long ago things occurred, 
etc. 

Adapted to the sun and the zodiac. Perverted — tapping 
nervously with the fingers. 

7. Very Large. — Remember with wonderful accuracy the time of 
occurrences ; are punctual; tell the time of day, etc., by intuition. 

6. Large. — Can generally tell when things occurred, at least the 
order of events, and the length of time between one occurrence 
and another, etc. ; tell the time of day without time-piece or sun 
well ; and keep an accurate chronology in the mind of dates, gen- 
eral and particular ; with large Eventuality, rarely forget appoint- 
ments, meetings, etc., and are a good historian. 

5. Full. — With cultivation, can keep time in music, and also the 
time of day in the head quite correctly, yet not exceedingly so. 

4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Try to remember just when an event took 
place ; rely more upon your head, and less upon your watch or 
time-piece ; keep step to the music in marching ; beat time in music ; 
be punctual ; be Wellington-like. 

31.— TUNE. 

The Muse Euterpe. — Musical instinct, inspiration, and genius ; 
ability to learn and remember tunes by rote. 

Adapted to the musical octave. Perversion — excessive fond- 
ness for music to the neglect of other things. 

7. Very Large. — Possess extraordinary musical taste and tal- 
ent, and are literally transported by rare and clear music. 

6. Large. — Love music dearly ; have a nice perception of con- 



80 ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS 

cord, discord, melody, etc., and enjoy all kinds of music; with 
large Imitation, Constructiveness, and Time, can make most kinds, 
and play well on musical instruments ; with large Ideality, impart 
a richness and exquisiteness to musical performances ; have a fine 
ear for music, and are tormented by discord, but delighted by con- 
cord, and take a great amount of pleasure in the exercise of this 
faculty ; with large Combativeness and Destructiveness, love mar- 
tial music ; with large Veneration, sacred music ; with large Ad- 
hesiveness and Amativeness, social and parlor music ; with large 
Hope, Veneration, and disordered nerves, plaintive, solemn music, 
etc. 

5. Full. — Have a good musical ear and talent ; can learn 
tunes by rote quite readily. 

4, 3, 2, and I degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Try to sing ; learn tunes by ear ; prac- 
tice vocal and instrumental music, and give yourself up to the 
spirit and sentiment of the piece ; attend concerts, listen appreci- 
atingly and feelingly to gifted performers, and cultivate the soul 
of music. • 

35.— LANGUAGE. 

Polyhymnia. — The expression of all mental operations by words, 
written or spoken, by gestures, looks, and actions ; the communicat- 
ing faculty and instinct in general. Adapted to man's requisition 
for holding communication with man. Perversion — verbosity, ple- 
onasm, circumlocution, garrulity, excessive talkativeness, telling 
what does harm, etc. 

" The dumb have no dual convolution where this organ ought 
to be." — Matthews' Physiology. 

7. Very Large. — Are exceedingly expressive in all said and 
done ; have a most expressive countenance, eye, and manner in 
everything, and emphatic way of saying and doing everything, 
and thoroughly impress the various operations of your own mind 
on the minds of others ; use the very word required by the occa- 
sion ; are intuitively grammatical, even without study. 

6. Large. — Express ideas and feelings well, both verbally and 
in writing ; can learn to speak languages easily ; recollect words, 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 81 

and commit to memory well ; have freedom, copiousness, and power 
of expression ; with large Amativeness, use tender, winning, per- 
suasive words ; with large Combativeness and Destructiveness, se- 
vere and cutting expressions ; with large moral faculties, words 
expressive of moral sentiments ; with large Acquisitiveness, de- 
scribe in glowing colors what is for sale ; with large Ideality, em- 
ploy richness and beauty of expression, and love poetry and ora- 
tory exceedingly ; with large Imitation, express thoughts and 
emotions by gesticulation. 

5. Full. — Command a fair share of words, yet use familiar ex- 
pressions ; are neither fluent nor the reverse ; when excited, ex- 
press yourself freely, yet not copiously. 

4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Talk, write, speak as much, as eloquently, 
as well as you can ; often change clauses with a view to improving 
sentences ; erase unnecessary and improper words, and choose the 
very words exactly expressive of the desired meaning ; throw feel- 
ing and expression into all you say — into action and expression of 
countenance ; study languages and the classics, but especially flu- 
ency in your mother tongue ; narrate incidents ; tell what you have 
heard, seen, read, done ; debate ; if religious, lead in religious ex- 
ercises — anything, everything, to discipline and exercise this faculty. 

36.— CAUSALITY. 

The Thinker and Planner. — Perception and application of 
causation ; reason ; deduction ; originality ; depth of thought ; 
forethought ; comprehensiveness of mind ; devising ways and 
means ; invention ; creating resources ; reasoning from causes to 
effects ; profundity. 

Adapted to nature's laws, plans, causes, and effects. Perverted, 
it reasons in favor of untruth and injurious ends. 

7. Very Large. — Possess this cause; seeking and applying 
power to an extraordinary degree; perceive by intuition those 
deeper relations of things which escape common minds ; are pro- 
found in argument and philosophy, and deep and powerful in rea- 
soning, and have great originality of mind and strength of under- 
standing ; see large. 



82^ ANALYSIS AND COMBINATIONS 

6. Large. — Desire to know the whys and wherefores of things, 
and to investigate their laws ; reason clearly and correctly from 
causes to effects ; have uncommon capabilities of planning, con- 
triving, inventing, creating resources, and making head save hands ; 
kill two birds with one stone ; predict results, and arrange things 
so as to succeed ; put things together well ; with large Combative- 
ness, love to argue ; with large perceptives, are quick to perceive 
facts and conditions, and reason powerfully and correctly from 
them ; with Comparison and Conscientiousness large, reason forcibly 
on moral truths ; with the selfish faculties strong, will so adapt 
ways and means as to serve personal purposes ; with moderate per- 
ceptives, are theoretical, and excel more in principles and philoso- 
phy than facts ; remember laws better than details ; with Compari- 
son and Human Nature large, are particularly fond of mental 
philosophy, and excel therein. 

5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Should cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — First and mainly, study nature's causes 
and effects, adaptations, laws, both in general and in those particu- 
lar departments in which you may feel any special interest ; think, 
muse, meditate, reason ; give yourself up to the influxes of new 
ideas ; plan ; adapt ways and means to ends ; endeavor to think 
up the best ways and means of overcoming difficulties and bring- 
ing about results ; especially study phrenology and its philosophy, 
for nothing is equally suggestive of original ideas, or as explanative 
of nature's laws and first principles. 

37.— COMPARISON. 

The Critic. — Inductive reasoning ; ability and desire to ana- 
lyze, illustrate, classify, compare, and draw inferences. 

Adapted to nature's classification of all her works. Perverted — 
is too redundant in proverbs. 

Very Large. — You are 7 in the mind's chief force. The 
convolutions of reason. 

6. Large. — Has a happy talent for comparing, illustrating, criti- 
cising, arguing from similar cases, discriminating between what is 
and is not analogous or in point, classifying phenomena, and 



OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 83 

thereby ascertaining their laws. You possess remarkable powers of 
analysis ; ability to reason from analogy, and to discover new 
truths by induction ; can clearly trace out relations between the 
known and the unknown, which escape common investigators, and 
with Individuality, Eventuality, and Causality well developed, will 
manifest great capacity for making discoveries and a passion for 
analytical investigations most useful to the phrenologist. 

5. Full. — Possess a full share of clearness and demonstrative 
powers. 

4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Will need to cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Put this and that together, and draw 
inferences ; spell out truths and results from slight data ; observe 
effects, with a view to deduce conclusions therefrom ; study logic 
and metaphysics, theology and ethics included, and draw nice dis- 
criminations ; explain and illustrate your ideas clearly and copi- 
ously, and exercise it in whatever form circumstances may require. 

C— HUMAN NATURE. 

The Physiognomist. — Perception of character ; discernment 
of motives ; intuitive reading of men by minor signs. 

Adapted to man's need of knowing his fellow-men. Perverted, 
it produces suspiciousness. 

7. Very Large. — Form a correct judgment as to the character 
of all, and especially of the opposite sex, at first sight, as if by in- 
tuition ; may always trust first impressions. 

6. Large. — You read persons intuitively from their actions and 
looks ; form your impressions of character by outward appearances, 
manner, walk, and other kindred signs of character ; with Individ- 
uality and Comparison large, notice all the little things they do, 
and form a correct estimate from them, and should follow first im- 
pressions respecting persons ; with full Secretiveness and large 
Benevolence added, know just how to take men, and possess much 
power over mind ; with Mirthfulness and Ideality large, see all the 
faults of people, and make much fun over them ; with Comparison 
large, have a talent for metaphysics, etc. 

5. Full. — Read character quite well from the face and external 
signs, yet are sometimes mistaken. 



84 THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS. 

4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Need to cultivate. 

To Cultivate — Scan closely all the actions of men, with a 
view to ascertain their motives and mainsprings of action; look 
with a sharp eye at man, woman, child — all you meet — as if you 
would read them through ; note particularly the expression of the 
eye, as if you would imbibe what it signifies ; say to yourself, 
What faculty prompted this expression or that action ? Drink in the 
general looks, attitude, natural language, and manifestation of the 
man, and yield yourself to the impressions naturally made on you 
— that is, study human nature both as a philosophy and as a senti- 
ment, or as if being impressed thereby ; especially study phrenol- 
ogy, for no study of human nature at all compares with it, and be 
more suspicious. 

D.— AGREEABLENESS. 

Persuasiveness, Pleasantness, Blandness. — Adapted to 
please and win others. 

7. Very Large. — Are peculiarly winning and fascinating in 
manner and conversation, and delight even opponents. 

6. Large. — Have a pleasing, persuasive, conciliatory mode of 
addressing people and of saying things ; with Adhesiveness and 
Benevolence large, are generally liked ; with Comparison and 
Human Nature large, say unacceptable things in an acceptable 
manner, and sugar over expressions and actions. 

5. Full. — Are pleasing and persuasive in manner. 
4, 3, 2, and 1 degrees. — Must cultivate. 

How to Cultivate. — Kiss the Blarney Stone ; take lessons 
from " Sam Slick" ; try to feel agreeable, and express those feel- 
ings in as pleasant and bland a manner as possible ; study and 
practice politeness as both an art and a science ; compliment what 
in others you can find worthy, and render yourself just as accept- 
able as you can. 



THE MATRIMONIAL ADAPTATION 



DEVELOPMENTS FOR PARTICULAR PURSUITS. 



Lawyers require the mental-vital temperament, to give them in- 
tensity of feeling and clearness of intellect ; large Eventuality, to 
recall law cases and decisions ; large Comparison, to compare dif- 
ferent parts of the law and evidence, to criticise, cross-question, 
illustrate, and adduce similar cases ; and large Language, to give 
freedom of speech. Phrenology will tell you how to acquire and 
use these powers and faculties. Try it. 

Statesmen require large and well-balanced intellects, to enable 
them to understand and see through great public measures and 
choose the best course, together with high moral heads, to make 
them disinterested, and seek the people's good, not selfish ends. 

Physicians require large perceptive faculties, so that they may 
study and apply a knowledge of anatomy and physiology with 
skill and success ; full Destructiveness, lest they shrink from in- 
flicting the pain requisite to cure ; large Constructiveness, to give 
them skill in surgery ; large Combativeness, to render them reso- 
lute and prompt ; large Cautiousness, to render them judicious and 
safe ; and a large head, to give them general power of mind. 
Phrenology will predict, in advance, whether or not a boy will suc- 
ceed in this profession. The same is true of dentistry. 

A clergyman requires the mental temperament to give him a 
decided predominance of mind over his animal propensities ; a 
large frontal and coronal region — the former to give him intellect- 



86 THE MATRIMONIAL ADAPTATION AND 

ual capacity, and the latter to impart high moral worth, aims, and 
feelings, elevation of character, and blamelessness of conduct ; 
large Veneration, Hope, and Spirituality, to imbue him with the 
spirit of faith and devotion ; large Benevolence and Adhesiveness, 
so that he may make all who know him love him, and thus win 
them over to the paths of truth and righteousness. Clergymen 
will do well to consult phrenology ; it would enable them to ac- 
count for many seeming mysteries, and give them power and influ- 
ence to do great good. It is in harmony with the highest Chris- 
tianity. 

Editors also require a mental temperament, with large Individu- 
ality and Eventuality, to collect and disseminate incidents, facts, 
news, and give a practical cast of mind ; large Comparison, to en- 
able them to illustrate, criticise, show up errors, and the like ; full 
or large Combativeness, to render them spirited ; large Language, 
to render them copious, free, spicy, and racy ; and large Ideality, 
to give taste and elevated sentiments. An editor who understands 
and applies phrenology possesses a power which he may use with 
great effect. " We can take your measure." 

Merchants require Acquisitiveness, to impart a desire and tact 
for business; large Hope, to promote enterprise ; full Cautiousness, 
to render them safe ; large perceptives, to give quick and cor- 
rect judgment of the qualities of goods ; good Calculation, to im- 
part rapidity and correctness in casting accounts ; large Approba- 
tiveness, to render them courteous and affable ; and full Adhe- 
siveness, to enable them to make friends of customers, and thus 
retain them. Why is one young man a better salesman than an- 
other ? and why is one better worth a salary twice or thrice the 
amount of that of another ? Phrenology answers this by pointing 
out the constitutional differences, and showing who is and who is 
not adapted to mercantile life. You had better consult it. 

Mechanics require strong constitutions, to give them muscular 
power and love of labor ; large Constructiveness and Imitation, to 
enable them to use tools with dexterity, work after a pattern, and 
easily learn to do what they may see others do, and large perceptive 
faculties, to give the required judgment of matter and the fitness 
of things. 



DEVELOPMENTS FOR PARTICULAR PURSUITS. 87 

The love tastes of men and women differ even more than their 
other tastes. "What is one's meat is another's poison." One 
man likes, another dislikes, the same qualities in the same woman, 
and thus of women. This natural law governs these tastes : those 
in either extreme in any respect love those best who are in an op- 
posite extreme, while those who are medium in any quality affiliate 
best with those who are near themselves. Thus, very large men 
love small women, and small men large women, while average men 
like average women best, yet can affiliate with either large, 
medium, or small ; and so of women. Bright-red hair prefers jet- 
black, while medium can love medium or black or red, and thus of 
curls. Tall persons should marry short and slim, stocky ; while 
those medium in height may marry either, or medium. Those hav- 
ing prominent noses and retiring chins and foreheads should select 
straight profiles, square faces, and high and wide foreheads and 
large noses, medium or small, Roman, pug, etc. 

The impulsive love the calm, yet those who are neither may 
select either ; and this principle applies to all the phrenological fac- 
ulties. 

JOHN M. MATTHEWS, M.D., 

Phrenologist and Psychologist. 



Phrenology and its Uses. 



It cannot be too soon understood that science is one, and that 
whether we investigate philosophy, theology, history, or physics, we 
are dealing with the same problem, culminating in the knowledge 
of ourselves. Speech is known only in connection with the organs 
of man, thought in connection with his brain, religion as the ex- 
pression of his aspirations, history as the record of his deeds, and 
physical science as the laws under which he lives. Philosophers 
and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred 
as a moral principle. Oar own nature demands from us this double 
allegiance. — Agassiz. 

Phrenology is the most useful of all modern discoveries ; for 
while others enhance creature comforts mainly, this science teaches 
life and its laws, and unfolds human nature in all its aspects. 
Its fundamental doctrine is, that each mental faculty is exercised by 
means of a portion of the brain, called its organ, the size and 
quality of which determine its power. 

Phrenology shows how the bodily conditions influence mind and 
morals. It teaches the true system of education ; shows how to 
classify pupils, to develop and discipline each faculty separately , 
and all collectively. Indeed, to phrenology and physiology mainly 
is the world indebted for its modern educational improvements, and 
most of its leaders in this department are phrenologists. 

Phrenology teaches parents for what occupation in life their 
children are best adapted, and in which they can and cannot be 
successful and happy. It also teaches parents the exact character- 
istics of children, and thereby how to manage and govern them 
properly ; to what motives or faculties to appeal, and what to avoid ; 
what desires to restrain, and what to call into action. 



PHRENOLOGY AND ITS USES. 89 

Phrenology and Physiognomy teach us our fellow-men ; tell 
us whom to trust and mistrust; whom to select and reject for 
specific places and stations ; enable mechanics to choose appren- 
tices who have a knack or talent for particular trades ; show us who 
will and will not make warm and perpetual friends, and who are 
and are not adapted to become partners in business ; and also 
decide, beforehand, who can, and who cannot, live together affec- 
tionately and happily in wedlock, and on what points differences 
will be most likely to arise. 

Most of all, phrenology and physiology teach us our own 
selves ; our faults, and how to obviate them ; our excellencies, and 
how to make the most of them ; our proclivities to virtue and vice, 
and how to nurture the former and avoid provocation to the latter. 
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If the opinions of eminent professional men, both in Europe 
and America, in regard to the truth and utility of phrenology, be 
of any account, the following testimonials should have some weight 
with unbiased readers. 

While unacquainted with it, I scoffed at the new philosophy of the 
mind, by Dr. Gall, known as phrenology, but have became a zeal- 
ous student of what I now conceive to be the truth, and have lived 
to see the true philosophy of the mind establishing itself wherever 
talent is found capable of estimating its immense value. — Sir G. S. 
Mackenzie, Pres't Royal Soc, Edinburgh. 

For ten year3, I have taught phrenology publicly, in connection 
with anatomy and physiology. It is a science founded on truth, 
and capable of being applied to many practical and useful pur- 
poses. — Robert Hunter, M.D., Professor of Anatomy, University, 
Glasgow. 

I have great pleasure in stating my firm belief in the truth and 
great practical utility of phrenology. This belief is the result of 
the most thorough investigation. — James Shannon, President of 
Bacon College, Ky., Prof. Mental and Moral Science. 

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90 PHRENOLOGY AND ITS USES. 

I not only consider phrenology the true science of mind, but also 
as the only one that may be applied to the education of children 
and to the treatment of the insane and criminals. — C. Otto, M.D., 
Professor of Medicine in the University of Copenhagen. 

Until I became acquainted with phrenology, I had no solid 
foundation upon which I could base my treatment for the cure of 
insanity. — Sir William Elles, Physician to Lunatic Asylum, Mid- 
dlesex, England. 

All moral and religious objections against the doctrines of phren- 
ology are utterly futile. — Archbishop Whately. 

I have long been acquainted with the science of phrenology, 
and feel no hesitation in declaring my conviction of its truth. It 
surpasses all former systems in practical utility, being that alone 
which is adequate to explain the phenomena of mind. — Rich. D. 
Evanson, M.D., Prof. Physiology, R. C. 8., Dublin. 

Phrenology undertakes to accomplish for man what philosophy 
performs for the external world — it claims to disclose the real state 
of things, and to present nature unveiled and in her true features. — 
Prof. Benj. Silliman. 

Phrenology is true. The mental faculties of men may be appre- 
ciated by an examination of their heads. — Joseph Vimont, M.D., 
of Paris, physician and author. 

I declare myself a hundred times more indebted to phrenology 
than to all the metaphysical works I ever read. * * * I look upon 
phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Chris- 
tianity. Whoever disseminates true phrenology is a public bene- 
factor. — Horace Mann. 

Phrenology appears to be true. It assigns a natural bias to the 
mind. By this science, the faculties of the mind have been, for 
the first time, traced to their elementary forms. — Robert Cham- 
bers, of " Chambers' Journal." 

Phrenology has added a new and verdant field to the domain of 
human intellect. — Rev. Thos. Chalmers, D.D. 

To a phrenologist the Bible seems to open up its broadest and 
highest beauties. — Rev. P. W. Drew. 

Phrenology is the true science of mind. Every other system is 
defective in enumerating, classifying, and tracing the relations of 
the faculties. — Prof. R. H. Hunter. 



PHRENOLOGY AND ITS USES. 91 

If we would know the truth of ourselves, we must interrogate 
phrenology and follow out her teachings, as we would a course of 
religious training, after we had once become satisfied of its truth. 
* * * The result of all my experience for something over two- 
score years is this : that phrenology is a revelation put by God 
himself within the reach of all his intelligent creation, to be stud- 
ied and applied in all the relations and in all the business of life. 
— Hon. John Neal. 

All my life long I have been in the habit of using phrenology as 
that which solves the practical phenomena of life. I regard it as 
far more useful, practical, and sensible than any other system of 
mental philosophy which has yet been evolved. Certainly, phren- 
ology has introduced mental philosophy to the common people. 
— Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. 

We may also mention the names of the following prominent men 
who have accepted phrenology as a true science, and, in various 
ways, have given it the support of their influence — thousands more 
could be added : Dr. John W. Francis ; Dr. J. V. C. Smith ; 
Dr. McClintock ; Dr. John Bell ; Prof. C. Caldwell ; Prof. S. G. 
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Hurlbut; Hon. Wm. H. Seward; Hon. Horace Greeley; Wm. 
C. Bryant ; Hon. Amos Deane ; Rev. Orville Dewey ; Rev. John 
Pierpont ; Hon. S. S. Randall. 

Phrenology being true, it should be learned, and cordially em- 
braced by all, and its benefits appreciated. It comes to mankind, 
not as a partisan or sectarian proposition, but as the voice of God, 
revealed in nature to aid and guide mankind. — Office " Phrenolog- 
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social affections in its back and lower portion ; the as- 
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